Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 07 Jun 2009 12:46:17 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
There is a box on the side of the house, and two coax cables come out.
I'd like to disconnect the second cable and run another one to the
cupboard but I am damned if I can get the cover off.
Heh, I'd like to know too. The key for it has the same shape as a socket
from the usual socket sets, except it is square, not hexagonal. In fact
it looks very identical to those old square-socket-on-a-handle keys
railwaymen carried to open all the doors passengers aren't usually
supposed to go into.
For the SaturnTelstraClear(TM) box I think the major difference is that
the key is also somehow magnetic. This pulls a couple of levers inside
the grey box out of the way which then allows the square bolt to turn.
Can anyone confirm this kind of principle being used?
Secondly I assume this is the same cable as one would use for a sky
dish? (I have plenty of rg6)
Yes it's RG6, but DO NOT USE JUST ANY RG6. Make sure you get sky-rated
good-quality stuff, not the cheapest DSE/jayjunk stuff. Otherwise, you
will be degrading the signal for yourself and everyone else in the
street, and the excuse for fiddling with the operator's network sounds
better if you can at least say you did it semi-competently...
Volker
Never needed to get inside their distribution box.
Did look over tech's shoulder when we moved in though. There were
numerous connections inside the house and the tech used an industrial
looking rf-splitter (sorry - never took notice of the type) to reroute
the cables to where I wanted them.
Later I moved wanted some connectivity at another location and I did
this myself, ensuring I removed the old cable so the number of
connections to the splitter remained the same.
All worked well.
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