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TV/UPC cabling

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  • 19-07-2014 1:58pm
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    Kohhal
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭


    Hi,

    I have a cable connection point for my TV on the wall in my living room where my UPC broadband comes through. This seems to come down through the wall from above but I'm trying to figure out where exactly from and where the cable enters the house.

    I can't see any incoming cables on the outside of the house as I've seen elsewhere. Checked the attic and can't find any coax cabling up there but need to have a proper look again.

    I want to run a cable down to the same point for my Saorview aerial so I'm hoping to find where the broadband cable comes in and use that to route the new one.

    Any ideas?


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,327 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Kohhal wrote: »
    I can't see any incoming cables on the outside of the house as I've seen elsewhere. Checked the attic and can't find any coax cabling up there but need to have a proper look again.

    There was a time when Eircom owned Cablelink, the predecessor of the UPC Dublin network. During that period, the TV cables used the Eircom underground ducts in areas where access was difficult or a problem because people wouldn't agree to let the cable run along the top of their house. So your cable could come in from the street with the phone cable, it possibly splits from the phone cable on the outside of your house. It might run up along a drainpipe to the top of your house where it enters the attic and connects to the internal cable.


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    Kohhal
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭Kohhal


    Thanks, am I correct in assuming then that I should be able to find a TV cable up in my attic somewhere? Couldn't find it again yesterday...


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,327 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Kohhal wrote: »
    Thanks, am I correct in assuming then that I should be able to find a TV cable up in my attic somewhere? Couldn't find it again yesterday...

    Unless the cable is coming through a hole drilled in the downstairs window, it will typically come in via the attic, especially if the TV point was installed as part of the construction of the house and wasn't added afterwards.


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