On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Craig Falconer<[email protected]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote, On 08/06/09 10:51: >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Craig >> Falconer<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I had to open mine to replace the weatherboard it was screwed to. >>> Damn rot and bora... never buy a weatherboard house. >>> >>> Anyway from memory it was clipped at the bottom and had a security cable >>> tie >>> on it too. So unclip the bottom with brute force and it rotated up like >>> a >>> cat flap. >>> >>> Then I lost the lid but that's another story... >>> >>> >>> Here's an easier option... Remove the F Connector from the cablemodem end >>> of >>> your cable, and pull the cable back under the floor. Then reroute it to >>> the >>> destination, and attach a new screw-on F connector. >> >> Good point but the cable runs along the outside of the house and then >> down the wall and through the wall at the point where the socket lives >> on the other side, so its not that easy. >> >> I'd like to leave the option to put it back there too. I might ring TC >> and see how much they would charge to re-route it. >> >> In the last house there were in fact two cable points inside the >> house, one in the dining and one in the lounge, so maybe its possible >> to just split the cable with an ordinary splitter? But then I'd have >> to waterproof that... > > No - you'll mess up the loads for the whole segment. TCL have remote access > to all those black things on the poles, and they have to balance the signal > at each point.
OK well I wonder what they do if when there are two points inside the house? Maybe there is more than one connector inside the grey box?
