Television over fiber/coaxial cable
Ben
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Hello,
I recently subscribed to a fiber optic plan up to 100 Mega with Numericable, and a technician came to my home to do the connection (since Orange installed the fiber in the building).
He installed a double input socket in place of my socket where the coaxial cable for my TV was coming out, so now I have my modem connected via coaxial to this new socket, and my decoder also connected via coaxial.
I have several questions:
1) What cable did the technician use to install the fiber since he didn't pull any cables from the common areas?
2) Since I've never had cable TV and have never subscribed to Numericable before, does the fiber come simply through my "TV" cable connected to the antenna?
2) In this last case, if one day the Numericable fiber network has a problem (a cut), could I still connect my TV to the rooftop antenna via the coaxial cable and the new socket installed by the technician?
I'm not sure if I was very clear, but my main concern is to understand if you "lose" the "aerial" television once you have made such an installation...
Thank you very much in advance for your answers!
Ben
I recently subscribed to a fiber optic plan up to 100 Mega with Numericable, and a technician came to my home to do the connection (since Orange installed the fiber in the building).
He installed a double input socket in place of my socket where the coaxial cable for my TV was coming out, so now I have my modem connected via coaxial to this new socket, and my decoder also connected via coaxial.
I have several questions:
1) What cable did the technician use to install the fiber since he didn't pull any cables from the common areas?
2) Since I've never had cable TV and have never subscribed to Numericable before, does the fiber come simply through my "TV" cable connected to the antenna?
2) In this last case, if one day the Numericable fiber network has a problem (a cut), could I still connect my TV to the rooftop antenna via the coaxial cable and the new socket installed by the technician?
I'm not sure if I was very clear, but my main concern is to understand if you "lose" the "aerial" television once you have made such an installation...
Thank you very much in advance for your answers!
Ben
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Hello
Numericable could make the effort to explain things a bit. I'll keep it short, sorry
NC and its predecessors initially transported cable TV during the analog era. Then they built a fiber backbone for digital distribution, adding telephony and internet services in the process. The connection uses coaxial, so don’t worry. However, the NC terminal becomes essential to decode, after validating your account, your options:
- TV with its “theme options” that are paid, and your modern TV also connects to the box (HDMI), which selects (using the box remote) the channels authorized by your contract
- the internet you sign up for at high speed, which connects to the box either via WiFi or Ethernet (network cable)
- telephony
there we have covered everything! I don't know the new terminal, but I do know the old one, which contains a smart card reader that validates your subscription and your options, and it is through this device that you select the TV channels you want to watch. I believe there is an option for a hard disk recorder
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