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Article #249Re: Virgin Media Box: Class Act
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:25
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:25
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charles wrote: > In article <MPG.27bc9819c82f243798976d@news.eternal-september.org>, > Terry Casey <ktype@example.invalid> wrote: >> In article <iis82h$es7$3@news.albasani.net>, tnp@invalid.invalid says... >>> >>> My understanding certainly was that there was fibre to the cabinet, and >>> coax and/or UTP from there to the premises, depending. >>> >> No - see my reply to Woody's post. > >>> Cambridge cable presentation (now Virgin via NTL) IIRC is /was pure >>> coax. With phones demuxed of that somehow. I think. >>> > >> No. The fact that both services are fed from a single cabinet may give >> that illusion but that is all it is: an illusion. > >> If you could see inside a cabinet before subscriber cables were added it >> would be easy to see that the telephony distribution is physically and >> electrically separate. Once the cabinet fills up, it is rather difficult! > > 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.
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