Connecting Free TV with UPC Internet in Apartment: Cable and Socket Configuration

Question

Hello, I moved into an apartment with UPC internet connection. I would like to connect a free TV from them, because it is possible. The condition of the cables in the box is as shown in the photo. The Internet signal reaches only one room and the input in the wall only allows you to connect the...

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

Does your TV support DVB-C (cable TV)? Unscrew the resistor and connect the cable to the room where the TV is located to the splitter (you need to find which cable it is there). The contract must include both Internet and free TV. If the contract only contains a provision about the Internet, there may not be a TV there (filter installed).

Anonymous · Answer

In the photo you have two TV cables coming into the apartment.

The first one is the one going into the ASH-107C splitter and then from the splitter ("Data" port), probably to the Internet modem in the room.

The second cable is twisted together with the cable going to another room?

So, it turns out that you should have at least two sockets in the room. Show a photo from the room, because there is a question about the second cable - where it goes, or whether there is any signal in it.

And now yes - UPC should actually distribute it to the modem and TV when installing the modem.

mieszaczwcz · Answer

If UPC still gives free (which I doubt) TV with Internet, you need a decoder from them which you will pay for. You will get a free decoder if you buy a TV package with a 2-year contract

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

No decoder or strictly any contract is needed for the free Start TV package. The package is free, but must be specified on the contract along with the Internet.

jan_kon · Answer

I still need to find out from the UPC whether I have free TV and even if not, I should have a signal from the antenna.

The first photo shows a socket from the living room. It has an input for TV and Internet plus a protruding cable. There is no signal at all or it is minimal in this socket. Do you know why?

The second photo shows the socket from the bedroom. Here is the entrance to the Internet. There is a signal. The TV input is masked.

How should I connect to receive TV?

I will add that both sockets are in the same wall at the same height on both sides.

mieszaczwcz · Answer

Provided that the building has a so-called collective antenna (usually the administration charges a fee for it and its maintenance, which you should pay as part of the rent) If there is no collective one, the only option left is to install your own terrestrial TV antenna.

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

@jan_kon The problem is that, as I know developers, you only have one coaxial cable in the rooms and the same in the box - so if they connected the Internet there, there is no chance of connecting a collective antenna (only one cable from the outside enters the apartment, and it is not allowed under no circumstances mix DOCSIS signals with any other signal).

jan_kon · Answer

And if I want to use the TV from UPC, is it possible with the current configuration in the box? And what about this masked TV input?

Anonymous · Answer

The building doesn't look old, so AIZ should be. And this would have to be checked with the administration.

There are clearly two cables going to the apartment, one of which definitely has Internet from UPC, and the other is probably empty or may be AIZ. The second one may be the cable from AIZ, or some old story, if there was another cable TV in the apartment before, or just AIZ.

Let's clarify:

1. Do you now have the modem connected to the socket in the bedroom that has a blank TV output?

2. in the second socket (the one with an additional cable coming out of it) you have nothing - neither TV nor Internet. Have you checked the TV output, Data and this additional cable? Because the socket is probably disconnected, and only the cable coming from the socket is connected to the cable in the wall. Have you checked the signal on this cable?

AIZ should be a DVB-T signal (terrestrial television).

jan_kon · Answer

Ad1. Yes, a modem in the bedroom to be exact. Can I receive TV here if there was no cover? Ad2. There is neither TV nor Internet in the second nest. The signal in the additional cable is very weak. It searches for a few channels but they don't receive them. Can anything be done about it?

KOCUREK1970 · Answer

You find a cable for a given room in the box, connect it to the splitter in the box, to 1 of the 2 ports in the splitter terminated with a resistor (you have to unscrew it), and that's it. Nothing, there may be no socket there - without a suitable socket or an additional splitter behind this socket you will not be able to connect the TV. Remove the cover from the socket and let's see what's inside the wall.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, this should be possible as long as there is full signal in the UPC cable. Except that you would need to do a few things. What you have on the wall is probably not an RTV socket, just a cover and a cable grommet (removing the cover would make it clearer). In such a case, a signal splitter for TV and IP is installed between this socket and the Internet modem. And that's it. Looking at the photo from the first post, it looks like such a splitter is mounted in a box in the apartment. This is also done by splitting the signal so that it can be delivered to different rooms. You would need to check whether it is actually a UPC installation (I think you can see the UPC marking on the cable going to the splitter). You can check this by disconnecting the second cable in the box from this photo - the one with yellow bands on the connectors. If the internet doesn't go out, it means it's going through the blue splitter in the box. Then all you need to do is move the splitter to the bedroom and install it between the socket and the modem. However, formally it should be done by UPC. This means that it is confirmed that the socket itself is disconnected from the cable in the wall, and the cable itself is probably not connected to anything at the other end, and what the TV or DVB-T decoder receives are signals from the cable itself, working as an antenna... ;) Of course, there is also a slight chance that the cable is connected to AIZ, but something is damaged in the installation or connection. But we won't solve it here - it requires looking into the telecommunications shaft or the cupboard on the first floor. Ask the administration about AIZ, because it is possible that when installing the Internet, UPC disconnected you from AIZ, thinking about connecting all the sockets in the apartment to their network, but they did not do it for some reason.

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