Can I use/convert the broadband thick white cable as cat5 cable?

Hi

Please could someone give me advice regarding my blueyonder cable modem.

A white box has been installed in the cellar - a black cable from this
goes out into the garden and then into the 'internet' cloud. A thick,
white cable comes out of this box, runs through the house, up to my back
bedroom and into the cable modem. On the white cable, as it connects to
the cable modem are four "interconnecting connectors" which are the same
as the final connection to the cable modem but look like they are there
to lower or raise the signal on the cable.
I have now realised that it would have been better to have kept the
cable modem in the cellar, attach a switch to the cable modem and run
cat5 through the house to the back bedroom for that computers internet
connectino. Then I could put another cat5 up from the cellar to the
lounge and have an internet connection there.

My question after that long ramble is can I convert this thick white
cable that is running through the house to cat5 (is there an adapter?)
so I can install the cable modem next to teh white box in teh cellar,
attach a switch in teh cellar, and use this white cable as a cat5
connection to the pc upstairs?

Phew...

Any help appreciated

"none" <""richardm\"@(none)"> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Please could someone give me advice regarding my blueyonder cable modem.
>
> A white box has been installed in the cellar - a black cable from this
> goes out into the garden and then into the 'internet' cloud. A thick,
> white cable comes out of this box, runs through the house, up to my back
> bedroom and into the cable modem. On the white cable, as it connects to
> the cable modem are four "interconnecting connectors" which are the same
> as the final connection to the cable modem but look like they are there to
> lower or raise the signal on the cable.
> I have now realised that it would have been better to have kept the cable
> modem in the cellar, attach a switch to the cable modem and run cat5
> through the house to the back bedroom for that computers internet
> connectino. Then I could put another cat5 up from the cellar to the lounge
> and have an internet connection there.
>
> My question after that long ramble is can I convert this thick white cable
> that is running through the house to cat5 (is there an adapter?) so I can
> install the cable modem next to teh white box in teh cellar, attach a
> switch in teh cellar, and use this white cable as a cat5 connection to the
> pc upstairs?
>
> Phew...
>
> Any help appreciated

The white cable is probably 75 ohm coax and will be unsuitable for cat5.

In news:(E-Mail Removed),
none" <""richardm\"@(none) <""richardm\"@(none)"> opined very noisily:
> Hi
>
> Please could someone give me advice regarding my blueyonder cable
> modem.
> A white box has been installed in the cellar - a black cable from this
> goes out into the garden and then into the 'internet' cloud. A thick,
> white cable comes out of this box, runs through the house, up to my
> back bedroom and into the cable modem. On the white cable, as it
> connects to the cable modem are four "interconnecting connectors"
> which are the same as the final connection to the cable modem but
> look like they are there to lower or raise the signal on the cable.
> I have now realised that it would have been better to have kept the
> cable modem in the cellar, attach a switch to the cable modem and run
> cat5 through the house to the back bedroom for that computers internet
> connectino. Then I could put another cat5 up from the cellar to the
> lounge and have an internet connection there.
>
You cannot use a "Switch" you need a "Router " as blueyonder accept only one
connection to the
modem


> My question after that long ramble is can I convert this thick white
> cable that is running through the house to cat5 (is there an adapter?)
> so I can install the cable modem next to teh white box in teh cellar,
> attach a switch in teh cellar, and use this white cable as a cat5
> connection to the pc upstairs?

You cannot use Cat5 in place of the Co-ax cable
Cat 5 can only be used after the cable Modem the White cable is a RF cable
which carries internet and TV signals

to a modem ( cable modem or Set top box) where the signals are de-modulated
and sent to the appropriate recipient
A PC or TV

>
> Phew...
>
> Any help appreciated


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Yddap
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Yddap wrote on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:03:39 GMT:

> You cannot use a "Switch" you need a "Router " as blueyonder accept only
> one connection to the
> modem

The restriction on one MAC address connected to the cable modem on
Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you can now
use a switch or a hub rather than a router.

Dan

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0100, "Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you

forgive me if wrong, but I didn't see BY mentioned by the original poster.

poster wrote on Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:34:27 +0100:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0100, "Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you
>
> forgive me if wrong, but I didn't see BY mentioned by the original poster.


This entire thread has been about Blueyonder.

Dan

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:34:27 +0100, poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0100, "Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you
>
>forgive me if wrong, but I didn't see BY mentioned by the original poster.

The second line says:

>Please could someone give me advice regarding my blueyonder cable modem.

Richard

poster wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0100, "Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you
>
> forgive me if wrong, but I didn't see BY mentioned by the original
> poster.

Read it again...

In news:gn08c1ted2e58mel6nu8766scg98cu5lr6@212.159.2. 85,
poster <us-(E-Mail Removed)> opined very noisily:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 15:12:56 +0100, "Spack" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> Blueyonder was removed months ago (at least before Oct 2004), so you
>
> forgive me if wrong, but I didn't see BY mentioned by the original
> poster.

I did
cut /paste of 1st line of OPs post

" Please could someone give me advice regarding my blueyonder cable modem."
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Yddap
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You can't convert it to Cat5 however you may be able to find an old
networking card that has a coax socket on it for running the network over
that cable.
It is the kind of thing most computer folk still have knocking about
somewhere even though they'll never user it.

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Colin
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