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Originally Posted by Stu038
Or are you saying that in your case the original installers dictated to you where they were going to put the cabling rather than both parties coming to an agreement?
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I wasn't actually in whe the guy came to do the install a couple of years back, but it's worth relay-ing (the story).
When I moved in there was a ntl box outside (previous owners had phoneline). I never used it, got BT re-enabled, and sky digi installed for telly. When we needed bb, ntl were competitive, so they got the nod. Like I said I wasn't in, but the guy came in, and my wife informed him where we were looking to have the cable modem sighted. He went under the floor, and apparently couldn't drill upwards at the point he was looking to do so. he then came back up, and blindly drilled from above to below the floor, which ended up in him going at a 45 degree angle through a dwarf wall. He then passed the cable through, and for some reason sealed the hole, so thorougly that I can't open up the hole, thereby giving me my previous problem. He ran about 20 metres of cable from the front of the house to this termination point, and my frustration simply is that I didn't have the flexibility of moving the cable myself to another room, as the hole being sealed prevented this. I can't believe for a minute that ntl care (why would they) about where my modem is, aslong as the equipment isn't tampered with. His actions unfortunately prevented this.
To top it all, my wife (heavily pregnant at the time) was enlisted to hold the drill in position once he had drilled through so he could find it when he went back underneath.
Anyway, Stu038's been rather helpful, and thanks for the rest of the contributions. This cable malarkey eh !