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bdav · 05-10-2005, 21:19

Right, here goes...

My house was a new build, and came with aerial sockets in quite a few of the rooms (2 in living room, 2 in 2 bedrooms, and 1 in kitchen.) All these go up to a splitter (not unlike the cable style ones) up in the loft. This has an input, which is basicly one of the sockets in the rooms, unless i were to get a roof aerial. I was told the general idea was that there are 4 outputs on the splitter, and 5 aerial sockets, so one is used as an input on the splitter (eg. pluging a cable box output into the wall socket in the lounge so all the other sockets get the RF output of the cable box, and possibly the channels from the passthru unit.).

It appears that, shortly after the house was built, NTL installed the main cable box in the lounge. To do this, the cable goes into the steel frame behind the aerial socket nearest to the green breakout box on the side of the house, and turns towards the other aerial socket on the far side of the room. Here, they disconnected the lead going to the roof, and connected their cable, just leaving the old roof cable tied in a knot inside the steel frame.

This was all fine - up untill the time when I get round to setting up the socket splitter thingy. ((I should probably point out that when they installed digital cable (originaly had analogue), they did not change the standard RF style socket to an F type - which i believe they should have done.)), i removed the fascia from the aerial socket by the NTL STB, and put an end on the tied up cable, connecting it to the RF output of the STB.

To find out which socket it was in the roof, I took a tv up, and tried each lead in turn untill i found the right one. Then I disconnected all the leads, plugging in only the STB input, and the output to the rooms I wanted for simplicity.

This all seemed fine. Untill i decided I would rather have the kitchen STB providing the input(dont ask!). So disconnected output from lounge STB, and connected kitchen STB. All fine. Except no picture on lounge STB any more.

All connections in wall plate are fine. Def. right lead connected. Have tried plugging lead into radio, as this usualy works giving a good signal quality - nothing - 0/50 signal on the radio. Its allmost as if the cable has been disconnected at the other end. All other STBs / SACMs working. Checked the green box on the outside of the house - it appears the lid thing has fallen off - a bit damp, but all connections tight....

Any ideas? Im sure NTL would not wire the cable feed up into the loft and into a distributor, so I am pretty sure that has nothing to do with it. The splitter wrong too (7.? dB per socket), where the others are about 3 (i think). I am at a loss as to what has happened. Has any one else had NTL wire the cable up to an odd place, then back down again?

05-10-2005, 21:19	#1
bdav Inactive Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 375	Oh Dear - Coincidence loosing cable service? Right, here goes... My house was a new build, and came with aerial sockets in quite a few of the rooms (2 in living room, 2 in 2 bedrooms, and 1 in kitchen.) All these go up to a splitter (not unlike the cable style ones) up in the loft. This has an input, which is basicly one of the sockets in the rooms, unless i were to get a roof aerial. I was told the general idea was that there are 4 outputs on the splitter, and 5 aerial sockets, so one is used as an input on the splitter (eg. pluging a cable box output into the wall socket in the lounge so all the other sockets get the RF output of the cable box, and possibly the channels from the passthru unit.). It appears that, shortly after the house was built, NTL installed the main cable box in the lounge. To do this, the cable goes into the steel frame behind the aerial socket nearest to the green breakout box on the side of the house, and turns towards the other aerial socket on the far side of the room. Here, they disconnected the lead going to the roof, and connected their cable, just leaving the old roof cable tied in a knot inside the steel frame. This was all fine - up untill the time when I get round to setting up the socket splitter thingy. ((I should probably point out that when they installed digital cable (originaly had analogue), they did not change the standard RF style socket to an F type - which i believe they should have done.)), i removed the fascia from the aerial socket by the NTL STB, and put an end on the tied up cable, connecting it to the RF output of the STB. To find out which socket it was in the roof, I took a tv up, and tried each lead in turn untill i found the right one. Then I disconnected all the leads, plugging in only the STB input, and the output to the rooms I wanted for simplicity. This all seemed fine. Untill i decided I would rather have the kitchen STB providing the input(dont ask!). So disconnected output from lounge STB, and connected kitchen STB. All fine. Except no picture on lounge STB any more. All connections in wall plate are fine. Def. right lead connected. Have tried plugging lead into radio, as this usualy works giving a good signal quality - nothing - 0/50 signal on the radio. Its allmost as if the cable has been disconnected at the other end. All other STBs / SACMs working. Checked the green box on the outside of the house - it appears the lid thing has fallen off - a bit damp, but all connections tight.... Any ideas? Im sure NTL would not wire the cable feed up into the loft and into a distributor, so I am pretty sure that has nothing to do with it. The splitter wrong too (7.? dB per socket), where the others are about 3 (i think). I am at a loss as to what has happened. Has any one else had NTL wire the cable up to an odd place, then back down again?