Cable - Sort

Talbs13 · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:15

Quick Question,

What sort of cable is used for DSL? Sounds a stupid question i never knew what they used. Coax?

Carter · 15 Oct 2006 at 17:30

Which bit of cable? The actual incoming is via your telephone twisted copper pair.

Talbs13 · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:34

The one that actually receives the Internet. Normally a black cable plugged into the Cable Modem for Telewest.

Mason64 · 15 Oct 2006 at 22:39

RJ11 Cable on both ends

Talbs13 · 16 Oct 2006 at 12:26

Mason64 said:
RJ11 Cable on both ends

Thats a telephone line cable!

Carter · 16 Oct 2006 at 12:55

ADSL comes down your phone line. Then from master socket to your router usually via RJ11 - RJ11, then from router to PC via CAT5e[RJ45]network cable.

Avalon · 16 Oct 2006 at 18:38

Talbs13 said:
The one that actually receives the Internet. Normally a black cable plugged into the Cable Modem for Telewest.

Telewest don't supply DSL unless you're a business off network and the build cost/requirments don't justify it. They don't (normally) use black cable on internal run's (it's the external siamease cable that has coax and RJ11 in a black sheath running together). If you are asking what they use to provide your cable modem iirc it's high grade solid core copper coax with a low resistance 65ohms ?) I can check if you are that bothered ?

233 · 16 Oct 2006 at 18:41

fibre optic - coax - rj45

Avalon · 16 Oct 2006 at 18:42

sormicoft said:
fibre optic - coax - rj45

They shove RJ45 on the end to plug into a cable modem in NTL land ? Weirdo

233 · 16 Oct 2006 at 18:44

no oh dear oh dear,

its fibre optic to the box then co-ax to your master- co-ax to the modem then rj45 (or if your really wierd usb) to the pc or 360

Kol · 16 Oct 2006 at 19:01

sormicoft said:
no oh dear oh dear,

its fibre optic to the box then co-ax to your master- co-ax to the modem then rj45 (or if your really wierd usb) to the pc or 360

Exactly that.

Talbs13 · 17 Oct 2006 at 12:43

sormicoft said:
no oh dear oh dear,

its fibre optic to the box then co-ax to your master- co-ax to the modem then rj45 (or if your really wierd usb) to the pc or 360

Thank you! At least someone is talking sense. I used Telewest as an example. They supply Cable not BT Rubbish. NTL, Telewest, Blueyonder etc is what i mean.

Can you you tell me what the 'master' is? Is that like a local junction box in the area which distributes it around the houses?

Carter · 17 Oct 2006 at 13:12

Talbs13 said:
Thank you! At least someone is talking sense. I used Telewest as an example. They supply Cable not BT Rubbish. NTL, Telewest, Blueyonder etc is what i mean.

Can you you tell me what the 'master' is? Is that like a local junction box in the area which distributes it around the houses?

So why did you say DSL in your 1st post?

iamgud · 17 Oct 2006 at 13:45

It is hard to talk sense when the question doesn't make any.

Talbs13 · 17 Oct 2006 at 13:45

I said Cable which ive heard people refer to it as DSL.

iamgud · 17 Oct 2006 at 14:02

DSL is how people that do not live in cable areas get Internet.

It usually runs on the existing BT telephone line. Cable is when NTL or another company has installed some kind of cable to your house specificly for TV + Internet.

I don't know much more than that as I have never used cable but it is just that your question didn't realy make sense.