I'm considering duming Sky when I move house in January and possibly
going for BT Vision - can anyone please tell me what the i/p to the BT
Vision STB is - i.e. Belling Lee, F-Type or RJ45?

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Cheers

Peter

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Peter wrote...

BT Vision - can anyone please tell me what the i/p to the BT
Vision STB is - i.e. Belling Lee, F-Type or RJ45?

Network connection is rj45 when using either direct connection to the BT
Home Hub or going via the Power Line abominations, (They've never been
out of the box Brian honest:-).
The aerial connection is standard belling lee coaxial in and pass
through.

http://www.digitalchoices.co.uk/imag...sion+_back.gif

A good box, I've had one for two years now. Picture quality via RGB
scart is identical to my sony VTX-800 as far as I can tell.
The TV replay and other on demand stuff work very well with no stutters
and good picture.
Worth having for the facility of feeding BBC iPlayer etc to the TV and
hi-fi without faffing about connecting the PC.

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png

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Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:29:22 -0000, UnsteadyKen
wrote:


Peter wrote...

BT Vision - can anyone please tell me what the i/p to the BT
Vision STB is - i.e. Belling Lee, F-Type or RJ45?

Network connection is rj45 when using either direct connection to the BT
Home Hub or going via the Power Line abominations, (They've never been
out of the box Brian honest:-).
The aerial connection is standard belling lee coaxial in and pass
through.

http://www.digitalchoices.co.uk/imag...sion+_back.gif

A good box, I've had one for two years now. Picture quality via RGB
scart is identical to my sony VTX-800 as far as I can tell.
The TV replay and other on demand stuff work very well with no stutters
and good picture.
Worth having for the facility of feeding BBC iPlayer etc to the TV and
hi-fi without faffing about connecting the PC.

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png


Thanks Ken. Will be rewiring my new property and the plan was to run
cat 6 to each TV point - your reply confirms my decision

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Cheers

Peter

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UnsteadyKen wrote:

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png

Slight effect if you've got 10Mb sync perhaps, I suspect utter
devestation if you only get 2Mb like some of us ...

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:22:59 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png

Slight effect if you've got 10Mb sync perhaps, I suspect utter
devestation if you only get 2Mb like some of us ...


The reason I'm considering BT is that I expect the speed available to
me to be north of 20Mb - the exchange area is currently being equiped
with FTTC.

What I now need to establish is what sort of contention I can expect
BT to impose at busy times - rumour has it that it's quite severe

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Peter

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Andy Burns wrote:

Slight effect if you've got 10Mb sync perhaps, I suspect utter
devestation if you only get 2Mb like some of us ...

I learnt about this at school. The War of Devestation (1389-92) started
when the King of Bulgaria removed his vest to display his hairy chest to
the Queen of Transylvania. The outrage caused resulted in war between
the two countries.

All this reminds me of the defenestrations of Prague. But that's another
story.

Bill

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:30:33 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:18:50 +0000, Peter
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:22:59 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png

Slight effect if you've got 10Mb sync perhaps, I suspect utter
devestation if you only get 2Mb like some of us ...


The reason I'm considering BT is that I expect the speed available to
me to be north of 20Mb - the exchange area is currently being equiped
with FTTC.

What I now need to establish is what sort of contention I can expect
BT to impose at busy times - rumour has it that it's quite severe

Have you thought to ask fir a Sam Knows white box?
The EU and Ofcom are measuring the broadband performance of 20,000
users in order to find out

I cannot have a Sam Knows box due to my employment
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Peter

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Have you thought to ask fir a Sam Knows white box?
The EU and Ofcom are measuring the broadband performance of 20,000
users in order to find out

From looking on the web, it seems that a "Sam Knows" box doesn't measure the
WiFi data. Since my Freeview box streams over WiFi, this would not help me.

Or are the web images out of date?

Paul DS.

On 14/11/11 22:18, Peter wrote:
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:22:59 +0000, Andy Burns
wrote:

UnsteadyKen wrote:

It shares your broadband and does have a slight measureable effect on
your broadband speeds but not noticeable in normal use

Just ran a quick test now.
speedtest run while viewing SD replay onITV Net Player.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591240620.png
speedtest run while viwing off air.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1591243733.png

Slight effect if you've got 10Mb sync perhaps, I suspect utter
devestation if you only get 2Mb like some of us ...


The reason I'm considering BT is that I expect the speed available to
me to be north of 20Mb - the exchange area is currently being equiped
with FTTC.

What I now need to establish is what sort of contention I can expect
BT to impose at busy times - rumour has it that it's quite severe


You don't need to go with BT just to get the advantage of FTTC...

On Tuesday, November 15th, 2011, at 03:15:22h +0000, Bill Wright pondered:

All this reminds me of the defenestrations of Prague. But that's another
story.

Forget not the defenestration of Leuven in 1378 when about 15 of the city
leaders were thrown from a window by an angry crowd.

Such violent activities show why recall elections are a good idea.