Query about NTL Set Top Box

Bubba

We have an NTL set top box but would like an additional one for our bedroom. The only reason we have got cable is because we live very close to the sea and we've got awful reception. We would like to watch TV in the bedroom so looking into an additional set top box. However, NTL want to charge £25 installation fee plus £15 rental per month. Just wondered whether there is any other way around this. Have also tried freeview box, but still reception is bad. Any ideas please.

T4i

*cough* dbox2 - or try grab another box from a car boot or ebay. Other things you will need are:-

2-Way Splitter (F-type)
F-Type cable and connectors (1 short piece about a foot and 2 longer pieces to go from the splitter to each box)

Prolly get told off now, oh well, I didnt do the washing up so that'll be twice in a day

I have a NTL cable modem you can have.....;)

ABH_3

T4i wrote:

*cough* dbox2 - or try grab another box from a car boot or ebay. Other things you will need are:-

2-Way Splitter (F-type)
F-Type cable and connectors (1 short piece about a foot and 2 longer pieces to go from the splitter to each box)

Prolly get told off now, oh well, I didnt do the washing up so that'll be twice in a day

I have a NTL cable modem you can have.....;)

NTL are a little sticter on what they allow to connect to their network these days, so whilst a dbox may still work. Buying a 2nd hand modem or tv receiver isn't necessarily going to. Especially when a box previously belonging to one customer turns up at another address. NTL allocate the macid as opposed to the customer giving them the macid, if it doesn't match the one that they have on record they are going to need to peform another install.

WestieFan

Maybe I have got this all wrong, but ......

Kids wanted to watch telly in their rooms so I ran a cable from the back of the tv/video setup through to their rooms, and use a booster in the middle for even better reception. It works for us, although we all have to watch the same cable channel, but I couldn't afford another box.

nads

WestieFan wrote:

Maybe I have got this all wrong, but ......

Kids wanted to watch telly in their rooms so I ran a cable from the back of the tv/video setup through to their rooms, and use a booster in the middle for even better reception. It works for us, although we all have to watch the same cable channel, but I couldn't afford another box.

You're on the same road as I am :T (I use a 2 way splitter) and a coax-to-normal aerial socket connection.

Or I think you can get those phillips tv sender things that send single and remote control functions from your bedroom back to the living room and show you whats on downstairs, upstairs.

T4i

ABH wrote:

NTL are a little sticter on what they allow to connect to their network these days, so whilst a dbox may still work. Buying a 2nd hand modem or tv receiver isn't necessarily going to. Especially when a box previously belonging to one customer turns up at another address. NTL allocate the macid as opposed to the customer giving them the macid, if it doesn't match the one that they have on record they are going to need to peform another install.

The dbox2 option would work better.....I don't know whats going on inside these cable companies but they seem to be employing very unloyal workers. I know of many cable engineers that make a killing from advice/old hardware.

So many of them seem to do it, they install and tell you about the dbox2! I'm not sure about NTL's take on MAC's but Telewest lifted the restrictions on there MAC's. When I first started using cable I had to clone my MAC for the router to work....now they dont care about MAC's. There is a utility to scan your area code for MAC's on a city/town network so people can clone your 10mb modem and make £80 on ebay. Its crazy!

Colcoops

nads wrote:

Or I think you can get those phillips tv sender things that send single and remote control functions from your bedroom back to the living room and show you whats on downstairs, upstairs.

Thats the option I use with my ntl box. Got it from tesco (made by Tecknica) for £25 and it works a treat

yelac21271

connecting any equipment other than the cable modem and set top box that Telewest and NTL supply is Illeagal, and if caught you can be prosecuted for obtaining services be deception.

Just a Warning