Chorus - 2nd Point

WezzyB

We get Chorus Cable into our house in North County Dublin.
I just got a Hauppage TV Card so I'm interested in watching TV in my upstairs room.
There is a cable socket in my room but there is no signal so I have to get the signal from downstairs 15M away (not very suitable).
What do you suggest I do?

- Ask Chorus to enable the 2nd Point, Does anyone know how much this would cost or if this is possible?
- Go into attic and patch the cable into my room into the downstairs cable and get signal degradation.

Mredmond

WezzyB,

Everything below is is dependent on you not having a set-top-box configuration:


You mention the second point upstairs - where is the source of this? ie the other end?

Presumably its at or near the source of the downstairs point. Thats where the cable should be connected, and split at that point.

Provided you don't have an STB, then the signal is being full ydecoded before it even gets to your TV, and so can be solit at the point of entry to your premises, with very little/no degradation whatsoever.

mr

WezzyB

Thanks Mredmond,
No STB (Set Top Box).
I'm going to see what I can do about sourcing where both the cables run into the house.

I was told by someone before that if I rang Chorus that they could enable that second point themselves, i.e. the second cable runs back to some Chorus "Switch", is this possible?

Mredmond

WezzyB,

If you contact Chorus they will connect up the 2nd point and may charge a 2nd full monthly rate to you.

If you split the signal at source, you'll have two connections at zero extra cost.

My own configuration is as follows:

Three TV points in the house, all terminating at a single junction at the side of the house (external). The CHORUS connection runs to this junction, at which point there is a 3-way splitter (kindly supplied and fitted by the engineer who connected me up) which connects to all three internal cables.

This gives me 3 totally independent connections, with totally independent VCR capability. No degradation, other than the CHORUS standard.

A further point to mention - when I first applied to CHORUS I hadn't a clue how to do the above, and was totally up front and above board with them in what I was trying to achieve. The rep. was sitting in my house filling out the form with me, and basically told me that I was only confusing the issue - trying to pay for extra connections - and to just do as I was told. One monthly payment.

Genghis

Just wondering, would anyone know if this is worthwhile.

I have an external box, within which there are three leads going to points around the house, and the original chorus cable.

When the Sky contractor was replacing chorus for me on the main living room line, he said that if he connected the old Chorus cable to the bedroom point, then I may be able to pick up some channels on one of the other lines.

I had a set-top box, and so I would need the decoder in the bedroom to view all channels. But my question is this - will a raw cable and no decoder deliver 'some channels'? Or None?

Afaik, Chorus have 'cabled' our estate, but have one big MMDS aerial at the front of the estate, from which TV is distributed through to each house; not strictly cable at all.

Depends Genghis on how Chorus distributed the "Stuff" to the houses in your estate.
Were they tuned in on VHF channels on your TV??
IE were they rebroadcasting their MMDS stuff to the houses on VHF via that cable-If so, there is the possibility that it would work.
mm

Mredmond

When the Sky contractor was replacing chorus for me on the main living room line, he said that if he connected the old Chorus cable to the bedroom point, then I may be able to pick up some channels on one of the other lines.

Sounds like you're a step or two ahead of me, Ghengis. I've still got Chorus. I suspect that you may get some channels through from Chorus, let us know what happens.

You've now got me wondering about the feed from your dish. If you connected that up to one of your other point, would any channels come through without a decoder/digibox at all? Is everything that Sky broadcast encrypted?

I think I know the answer, but you'd never know....


mr

bkehoe

Sky is Digital, totally different to analogue cable. You need some kind of decoder box to receive the MPEG2 data and convert it into analogue.