setting up UPC system for 1st time

JMSE

Howdy, finally took the plunge and opted for the UPC bundle, want to move up from just broadband from an 02 dongle.

In our estate, UPC upgraded the old Cablelink/NTL wiring going from house to new fibre optic stuff. I went up the ladder to see how that works for the feed into my house and I see they just plugged the ancient old coax into the new 'box' that you see on everyones fascia.

Is that ****ty old wire going to be carrying broadband tv and phone down into my sitting room? Or am I missing something? How is that possible??

coylemj

The final drop into your house is still co-ax, the mention of 'fibre' simply refers to the backbone network.

Running fibre into each house would be total overkill, it may happen some day but at the moment a fibre-optic cable can provide TV, Broadband and phone to multiple house so there's no need for UPC or any cable provider to run fibre straight into your house, they split the fibre signal down the street somewhere at a concentrator box and use co-ax for the final run to the houses.

That 'sh**ty old wire' gives me 60 Mb broadband, digital TV, analogue FM radio and phone.

JMSE

Thanks. Its a mind blower, even the old eircom landlines would have 4 1ml wires coming in for just one phoneline, now they can do this much with just 2...