Could anyone give me the exact spec used for domestic broadband coax?

Many thanks.

S.

Is this broadband in the radio/TV sense (as in not baseband) (rather than the often mis-used internet sense)?

- Andy.

Andy,

It come sin through the wall and straight into the router/modem/WiFi thingy.

S

isnt it just screened RG-6?

Ah - broadband internet from your local cable TV supplier?

I can't be much help there I'm afraid (had it been ADSL I could have had a good guess)

- Andy.

I think it is just RG-6, I was just looking for a touch more intel.

S

router/modem/WiFi thingy

Now there is a technical I'm not awfully familiar with.
I believe it's RG59 and/or Cat5E as most VM use RG59 for vision and the CAT5 or equal for data.
Our old telephone service from Telecential (we are here for the long haul, they promised - then sold out to NTL before being swallowed up). was CAT5E from a little box in the footpath.

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Norman

the data comes down the coax too, and indeed the RG6 connects to the terminal adapter along with the cable tv boxes etc

I think that some cable tv boxes have a TA built in, so can use cat 5 ethernet cable from that to a PC much like any other ethernet system but with wifi being so prevelant these days i doubt any new installations are done like this

also, you get a telephone service using whatever they felt like at the time, but to comply with regs, always one spare pair per telephone line.

Don't you believe it - there's plenty of UTP going into my house for one, and I know lots of people that wouldn't touch WiFi with a barge pole - it still doesn't match copper on performance, security or reliability.

- Andy.

i dont disagree, and my house is floodwired with utp, but seeing how virgin do their installs, its the quickest way possible and most people want wifi which necessitates the need for a wifi ta