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In message on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:52:48 -0000
Sheila wrote:

"tony sayer" wrote in message
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According to a friend of mine who has his head in these a lot they can
use RG6 and RG11 for cabinet to house drops, and either RG6 or RG59 for
internal house and premises wiring..!...
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Which is exactly how Terry has phrased it for at least 3 posts including the
one you quoted. RG6 for the majority and RG11 for any extra long drops,
cabinet to premises.


Well, it's nice to know that at least one person bothers to read what I write ...

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Terry Casey wrote:

Well, it's nice to know that at least one person bothers to read what I write ...

I know one person bothers to read what I write because I always read it
through before posting.

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In message on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:36:48 +0000
Bill Wright wrote:

Terry Casey wrote:

Well, it's nice to know that at least one person bothers to read what I write ...

I know one person bothers to read what I write because I always read it
through before posting.


:) Does that count, though ...?

Perhaps I should have said 'one other person' ...

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In message on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:36:48 +0000
Bill Wright wrote:

Terry Casey wrote:

Well, it's nice to know that at least one person bothers to read what I write ...

I know one person bothers to read what I write because I always read it
through before posting.


:) Does that count, though ...?

Perhaps I should have said 'one other person' ...

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Seen in Radcliffe Gtr Manchester this morning. Anyone care to ring the number?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g3zvt/5531715219/

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message ...
Malcolm Gray wrote:
at my daughter's house there is only 1 cable incoming which is then split
to provide telephone & television. So, they can't all be like that.

that is how I remember it from my friend's Cambridge Cable. One coax, a magic box, then cable modem on one socket and a standard
BT style phone on another.

I should cross post this to cam.misc as they are all on it over there.

My memory is of a figure of eight cable that was something like coax and
cat 5.

Round here they run a single RG6 into the premises and fit a small screened splitter on the end. One leg does the telly; the other
does the phone.

Bill

That can't be right .

Splitter usually feeds STB and modem. The modem might easily be
connected to a router that has VoIP FXO facilities, (that's phone sockets to you).

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In message on Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:11:54 -0000
Graham. wrote:

Seen in Radcliffe Gtr Manchester this morning. Anyone care to ring the number?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/g3zvt/5531715219/

Well, as you are the only one with the all important precise location details,
consider yourself elected!

As it's a former Nynex area, there should be a handy identification number on
the side of the cabinet which would also be useful ...

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Graham. wrote:

Round here they run a single RG6 into the premises and fit a small screened splitter on the end. One leg does the telly; the other
does the phone.

Bill

That can't be right .

Splitter usually feeds STB and modem. The modem might easily be
connected to a router that has VoIP FXO facilities, (that's phone sockets to you).

That'll be it then.

Bill

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Thanks for the excellent detailed posts Terry. I would just like to raise
the issue of 'legacy' cable. When cable was first laid in my area around 20 years ago the cable company just laid coax to
customers homes, prior to them providing a telco service circa. 1994.

There are still many hundreds of homes in my area where customers without VM telephone just have the original coax to premises
(for TV and Broadband) and have never had an upgrade to the siamese cable. I just felt I should explain this so that others are
aware why the twisted pair can be missing in 'legacy' cases.

Sheila

But, irrespective of whether the cable company provides a dedicated twisted pair
for POTS, the customer always has the option of creating their own virtual lines
using VoIP. On the basis of a 1Mb/s up channel I should think 3 simultaneously
used virtual phone lines should be possible.

One could ponder upon why VM bother to provide the extra infrastructure required
for a proper phone line, the answer of course is obvious.

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