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Retrovertigo · 09-02-2006, 12:54

I have been wondering for a while now about this. Seeing as my 10meg connection is anything but!

Anywway, my home is a house divided into 3 flats as is the identical property next door. NTL when first cabling up the area, ran a cable pipe up to underneath my window and the same next door.

Since then 5 more flats have been built behind me. Yet NTL have fed everyone, including myself from next doors junction. Despite my junction being on the wall exactly where my P.C is placed. Instead they ran a cable from next door and down my front wall!!!

Now, the junction box next door now feeds 9 flats in total. It comes from a brown junction box and then is a spiders web of cables all split off by small silver splitter boxes that look like cheap tat from maplins.

Surely this is partly why my speed is now pathetic? It can't be right to have the one feed split up and shared like this can it?

Maybe I am wrong but it all seems so sloppy and unprofessional to me.

09-02-2006, 12:54	#1
Retrovertigo Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Manchester Posts: 481	My connection - and the no. of homes it's shared with. I have been wondering for a while now about this. Seeing as my 10meg connection is anything but! Anywway, my home is a house divided into 3 flats as is the identical property next door. NTL when first cabling up the area, ran a cable pipe up to underneath my window and the same next door. Since then 5 more flats have been built behind me. Yet NTL have fed everyone, including myself from next doors junction. Despite my junction being on the wall exactly where my P.C is placed. Instead they ran a cable from next door and down my front wall!!! Now, the junction box next door now feeds 9 flats in total. It comes from a brown junction box and then is a spiders web of cables all split off by small silver splitter boxes that look like cheap tat from maplins. Surely this is partly why my speed is now pathetic? It can't be right to have the one feed split up and shared like this can it? Maybe I am wrong but it all seems so sloppy and unprofessional to me.