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 -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
