Re: Cable broadband query

VinceH <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <gemini.jonsjo0010mmx01fw.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ray Dawson <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does cable broadband use the cable going to the 'phone line, or the
cable carrying the TV feed?

My broadband, provided originally by Telewest/Blueyonder and now
Virgin Media, uses the same feed as the TV, though using a separate
physical cable coming into the house[1] - literally; at one point I
swapped the boxes around in order to put the TV box in a more
practical place!

I have two physical cables coming into the box on the outside of the wall.
I know that one of them is a 4 wire cable, like a telephone cable, as it
has been chopped showing the wires. I presume that is is the old Ntl
'phone cable and the other one a screened RF cable for the TV.

I'm just not sure if the cable broadband comes down the telephone wires
(broken) or the TV coax (still there).

Cheers,

Ray D
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