Victor Churchill wrote:
>
> I believe the F type connector is also used on some DAB radio sets but
> can't say for sure.
>
> I was in a similar situation just last weekend. A guy on Maplins phone
> line told me that they supply two types of coax F type connectors, one
> push-on and one crimp-type. But when I went to the local store I was
> able to pick up 2 1.5m readymade cables which I used to replace the
> two woefully short leads that Mr NTL (sorry, Virgin Media) installed
> when they replaced my all-in-one STB with a separate CM. They also
> stocked a wee Ethernet female-female adapter which was handy so I
> could extend the fixed Ethernet cable and put the CM somewhere
> sensible rather than have it dangling in mid-air from its cables B-)
>
>
The self install kit comes with 3m and 2x 1.5m coax, plus 10m RJ45 so no
problems with cables. I have to say that once installed, NTL cable is
far more reliable than BT exchange based ADSL. I've had 3 outages from
my Tiscali connection already (one exchange line fault, one Tiscali
network plus another where I had to reset the connection using the USB
modem, yuk). The main problem with cable is it is dearer than ADSL if
you want a decent phone package.
John.
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