Hi. I'm a current ATT Uverse customer and have been since I moved into my house 5 years ago. I'm interested in switching to Bright House (confirmed cable provider for my area). The previous owner of my house (also a Uverse customer) had cat5e cable ran to all the rooms with televisions, and these cables connect the wall outlets in the various rooms to our Uverse set-top boxes.
There was active Bright House service at this house most recently in 2007, so perhaps there is coaxial cable still in the walls somewhere, but if it is, it may be long covered up and/or inaccessible. I don't wish to go through the hassle of running all new coax cable throughout the house (3 rooms have TVs in them), and am only going to switch services if I can make use of the ethernet/cat5e cables that link everything together as it does today.
Does anyone by chance have familiarity with a similar set-up that could confirm if this is workable? I'm sure there is some type of "converter" whereby I could turn my wall outlets into a receptacle for a coax cable, but if the cabling inside the walls is still cat5e, I don't know if Bright House's services would work via that connection. If the cat5e cables are sufficient for HD television passthrough for Uverse, it makes intuitive sense that the bandwidth would be there for Bright House's services to function, but admittedly, I know next to nothing about the science of these different cable types... I have only the wherewithal to plug it all in.
Would appreciate any insight you folks might have on this topic. And thanks in advance.
There was active Bright House service at this house most recently in 2007, so perhaps there is coaxial cable still in the walls somewhere, but if it is, it may be long covered up and/or inaccessible. I don't wish to go through the hassle of running all new coax cable throughout the house (3 rooms have TVs in them), and am only going to switch services if I can make use of the ethernet/cat5e cables that link everything together as it does today.
Does anyone by chance have familiarity with a similar set-up that could confirm if this is workable? I'm sure there is some type of "converter" whereby I could turn my wall outlets into a receptacle for a coax cable, but if the cabling inside the walls is still cat5e, I don't know if Bright House's services would work via that connection. If the cat5e cables are sufficient for HD television passthrough for Uverse, it makes intuitive sense that the bandwidth would be there for Bright House's services to function, but admittedly, I know next to nothing about the science of these different cable types... I have only the wherewithal to plug it all in.
Would appreciate any insight you folks might have on this topic. And thanks in advance.
