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Where does UPC cable enter house?

  • 12-05-2013 7:03pm
    #1
    Ush1
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    Hi there,

    Anybody know where the UPC line would enter a house? House is semi detached in south Dublin.

    I'm thinking from an air tightness point of view. Seems to enter at the front but there is also a cable running up the front of the house into the attic.

    Also, is it the TV and broadband on one cable and the phone line separate, or could they be all the one cable?


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  • #2
    coylemj
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    All of the UPC services arrive to your house on a single cable. At some stage around 1990 Eircom purchased NTL (the predecessor of UPC) who then allowed NTL to use the Eircom ducts so on your street your UPC cable could be running underground alongside the phone cables.

    If your cable is running up the front of the house and into the attic, it sounds like you may have the same setup as me whereby the builder ran a co-ax cable along the eaves and into the attic of each house with the intention that NTL would hook up the estate using that cable but in my case NTL arrived instead along the Eircom underground ducts (probably because it made it easier to connect and disconnect people) so the NTL cable came in under my drive to the phone point on the outside of my house, it was then split from the phone cable and was run up the outside of my house and into the attic where the builder had installed a distribution (splitter) box.


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