Ceolmar
18-07-2005, 10:58
I am doing some major house renovation soon and want to get my head around the cable tv/broadband setup I have. Forgive me if this has been discussed elsewhere.
On the outside of my house there is a brown plastic box with the telewest logo on it. One larger cable goes into the bottom of this box and two thin cables come out. One of these cables goes to my main telewest phone point while the other appears to go to a phone point for the TV.
I have a PC upstairs with a cable modem which has what looks like a coax cable going into it from the loft. Behind my TV I have a wedge shaped white telewest box on the wall with two tv aerial type connectors on it - one is a screw thread,the other has a sort of pointy thing on it (forgive my ignorance!).
I want to minimise the cabling in the house but I need to understand the logic of the system. Is the brown external box the main entry point for the cable? Should there be a coax type cable coming out of it for the PC/TV signal? Is this a CT100 satellite cable? Could I use the wedge shaped box to connect to my cable modem and remove the wasted cable in the loft?
Any help gratefully appreciated :dozey:
On the outside of my house there is a brown plastic box with the telewest logo on it. One larger cable goes into the bottom of this box and two thin cables come out. One of these cables goes to my main telewest phone point while the other appears to go to a phone point for the TV.
I have a PC upstairs with a cable modem which has what looks like a coax cable going into it from the loft. Behind my TV I have a wedge shaped white telewest box on the wall with two tv aerial type connectors on it - one is a screw thread,the other has a sort of pointy thing on it (forgive my ignorance!).
I want to minimise the cabling in the house but I need to understand the logic of the system. Is the brown external box the main entry point for the cable? Should there be a coax type cable coming out of it for the PC/TV signal? Is this a CT100 satellite cable? Could I use the wedge shaped box to connect to my cable modem and remove the wasted cable in the loft?
Any help gratefully appreciated :dozey: