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In article <MPG.27bd2200792a4333989772@news.eternal-september.org>,
Terry Casey <ktype@example.invalid> scribeth thus
>In article <iiurve$6rj$1@news.albasani.net>, tnp@invalid.invalid says...
>> 
>> tony sayer wrote:
>> > In article <bvla28-la3.ln1@malcolmdesk.malph.dyndns.org.malph.dyndns.org
>> >> , Malcolm Gray <malcolm-news2008@jobstream.com> scribeth thus
>> >>
>> >>>> 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.
>> > 
>> > Co-ax, RG11 IIRC and a two pair copper phone cable often referred to in
>> > the trade as "Sidecar cable"
>> 
>> 
>> Right: Given that it's you Tony, I take that as authoritative.
>
>So we have (a) God amongst us, do we? Perhaps I should bow and scrape ...

Sarcasm will get ye nowhere;!..

>
>Actually, RG6 is the norm ...

One or the other. Seem to remember one of their local engineers
referring to it as 11 ..

Engineer that was, not installer;!..
>
>> 
>> So instead of using - say - baseband POTS and RF muxed on the one cable, 
>> they run a separate pair for de dog and bone..but in the same sheath?
>
>It's a figure-of-eight so that the cable can be split into its component parts 
>with each 
>fully shrouded.
>
>Do these help?
>
>http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/ktype_photo/RG6_Siamese.jpg
>
>http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/ktype_photo/RG6-Siamese.jpg
>

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Tony Sayer