Cable connection in shared residence

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need someones help and insight on this.

i live in a shared hosue of 20 people, two next door houses knocked together, in my side of the house we have a 10mg cable line coming in, the other side didnt, now due to last years students who laged the line like you wouldnt believe we've decided to only have the net for one side of the house, to which the other side have brought their own net and started to have it fitted this morning.

the question is, instead of fitting a new line from the street to their house, and a new box on outside of their side of the house, the telewest guy just detached our box from outside my window, moved it along so it's between the two houses, and then stuck another two lines coming out of it, one for their tv, and one for their internet, my question is, will this new connection have any ill effects to my/our net as its coming out of the same box?

need a speedy answer so i can, if needed, assembly the keyboard warriors to defend our net!


thanks for all replies
 
Just to clarify some things on this. Every other house on the street has their own individual line coming to them and their own box on the outside of the house. As said, we only have the one for what should technically be considered two houses.

Looks like a simple splitter inside, but I won't say for sure since I don't know much about cable hardware as such. What I do know is we were consistently getting 10 mb connection according to http://www.adslguide.org.uk/tools/speedtest.asp and since this morning we have consistently gotten a reading of 8 mb. Considering they ordered a 2 mb line that seems awfully suspicious.

I suspect a bodge job was done to be honest to save on the work the guy had to do, but I'd appreciate any input from people who know about cable lines.
 
It's not uncommon for houses to share a drop, infact it's the norm in some area's. Adding one 2mbit modem to a drop isn't going to reduce your 10mbit by 2, it doesn't work like that. An additional device potentially could reduce your signal though but tbh less than 4 devices on a single feed is unlikley to do that but again it's down to the specifics of your area.
 
Hudzy said:
Every other house on the street has their own individual line coming to them and their own box on the outside of the house.

It might be a single drop from the pavement to the wall, but it's almost always a single coax from there to the fibre splitter.
 
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