[BC] Verizon T1 and batteries

[Tom Bosscher]

Steve,

    If you have an existing house with typical coax to several areas, 
ATT has special baluns that they use to shove the ip data around. So 
they don't have to replace your cable. In my case, I'm thinking, not 
shielded signals. While the coax looks shielded, the balun makes the 
cable float. Since I transmit and receive amateur radio ether, I didn't 
want any ingress or egress (love those words!). So I pre-wired my house, 
not too difficult. I had a 6 port patch bay in the corner of the 
basement, with an AC outlet, a shelf and a new cat5 cable to the demarc 
outside to a RJ-12 (major overkill, but it looked cool). The ATT tech 
simply laughed, and the installation was actually fun. Just like 
Christmas, opening boxes and plugging them in.
    So if you have existing coax, I was told they can use those. But I 
preferred to do things properly. You will have a gateway box that 
connects to your copper incoming line. The service is simply a very high 
speed DSL, and that then has jacks for telephones (2 lines), and several 
RJ-48 jacks for ethernet. Each TV needs a box that takes AC power, 
connects to the gateway, and has several outputs (component, CH3-4 RF, 
HDMI, S-VHS). If you get the DVR, one of your devices will have the HD 
in it, and it can be accessed from the other TVs, and the net.

       tom bosscher

Steve Lewis wrote:
> Ahhhhhh.  Finally somebody that can answer a question that Doris or Mary
> Jane or anyone else I've chatted with cannot...
>
> Is there or is there not any coax involved in the installation?  Do they
> actually run new cat 5 cable to all the TV sets?
>
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