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Lost UPC analogue after getting in BB

  • 31-08-2010 5:16pm
    #1
    bemak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭


    Moved into a new apartment recently and there was a UPC box on the wall, so i plugged in a standard cable and low and behold I was getting a fewe of the analogue channels, so i thought great no need for the rabbit ears

    Then today I was getting broadband installed and the engineer changed the box in the wall and used the connection for the broadband which meant I lost the basic channels. I then went to BnQ and got an aerial cable with the converter (the one you screw in) to see if i could still get those channels and no luck.

    I suppose there's no way of getting them back? They were handy out


Comments

  • #2
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,062 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Yes of course there is. Contact UPC and tell them you want to subscribe to their TV service.


  • #3
    Runs Cold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Runs Cold


    add digital tv value at €20.75 per month and your broadband will reduce in price by €7.75 per month as you will now be a tv and bb subscriber:)


  • #4
    bemak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭bemak


    Ya think I'll just add the package. They have great deals


  • #5
    0ph0rce0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,026 ✭✭✭0ph0rce0


    Bah!!! Buy another lead and a splitter, and you have the channels back.


  • #6
    bemak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭bemak


    0ph0rce0 wrote: »
    Bah!!! Buy another lead and a splitter, and you have the channels back.

    Already done......was being politically correct! Sure the analogue will be dying out in the next few months anyway so I'm hardly screwing the system


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  • #7
    Ranicand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Ranicand


    bemak wrote: »
    Already done......was being politically correct! Sure the analogue will be dying out in the next few months anyway so I'm hardly screwing the system

    People who do not get tv have to pay a standalone charge on top or their broadband of 7.75 per month.

    UPC can not block the analog tv on the line so the 7.75 charge is really for watching tv the sneaky way.;)


  • #8
    bemak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭bemak


    I unplugged the tv today to use the Internet and for some reason the Internet wouldn't work.....then I plugged the Tv in again and that doesn't work now either...... Any ideas?


  • #9
    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    bemak wrote: »
    I'm hardly screwing the system
    bemak wrote: »
    I unplugged the tv today to use the Internet and for some reason the Internet wouldn't work.....then I plugged the Tv in again and that doesn't work now either...... Any ideas?

    UPC are hardly screwing you...try calling them?


  • #10
    Runs Cold
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭Runs Cold


    You will need to ring in to sort the bb out.. this is what happens when have a go @ DIY on cable systems...


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