HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
| Bell TV now available?
Ok so everyone in my apartment building just received a card from bell saying TV is now available in your building. This wouldn't be so confusing if satellite dishes weren't banned at our apartment building. Is bell now offering IPTV or something? Just curious is all, that'd be cool if it were. |
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Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
 ·Bell Sympatico
| It's still BellTV (not IPTV), however the entire building is being fed by a single service versus everyone having a dish outside on their balconies.
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON | So if I ordered this, I'd just do it like you would order expressvu at a house? Also how does the service come into my apartment, via coax or phone? |
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BryceS
join:2007-09-17
Woodstock, ON
| reply to HoboJ
Go here:
»www.connectyourspace.com/
You cannot setup this particular service at a Bell World store.
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MarkAW
Barry White or lil bratt
Premium
join:2001-08-27
Canada
·Cogeco Cable
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to HoboJ
My mother in-law has this service at her apartment building. The way they have it done at her building is one dish services the entire building. All she had to do when she moved in was call Bell telling them she wanted tv service and they sent someone over to hook her up to the dish that is on the roof of the building, but everything is done in the basement. Basically it is done like how my house was done, my dish is on the roof and the main cable coming from the dish is hooked into the cable box to service the hole house, three bedrooms and living room.
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BryceS
join:2007-09-17
Woodstock, ON | reply to HoboJ
Most roof dishes are like 30" wide too.
Amazing a dish so small can feed apartment and condo buildings.
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| reply to BryceS
Ya that service doesn't list my apartment building. Only one out 6 in the postal code k8v6n6. = / |
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MarkAW
Barry White or lil bratt
Premium
join:2001-08-27
Canada
·Cogeco Cable
·Bell Sympatico
2 edits | I get all four at k8v6m6 which is Trenton as well. |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON
·Cogeco Cable
1 edit | said by MarkAW  :I get all four at k8v6m6. K8V6N6  I miscounted, theres 7 apartment buildings within the postal code in reality yet it only lists one which isn't my apartment building. Unless one dish can feed 7 separate buildings? |
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makkaoui
join:2008-09-28
North York, ON
| This is not IPTV .. something similar though .. its TV over VDSL .. I have it in my condo..
basically there is a COAX that comes our of the Basement (Fiber terminates in the basement) ... the coax cable goes in a motorolla box in my living room .. out of the box comes an ethernet cable for the internet and TV .. its pretty decent .. but i cant get HD on mine.
There is no satellite in this setup .. the TV signal is sent over fiber to the building. |
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Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
·Bell Sympatico
| said by makkaoui :This is not IPTV .. something similar though .. its TV over VDSL .. I have it in my condo.. basically there is a COAX that comes our of the Basement (Fiber terminates in the basement) ... the coax cable goes in a motorolla box in my living room .. out of the box comes an ethernet cable for the internet and TV .. its pretty decent .. but i cant get HD on mine. There is no satellite in this setup .. the TV signal is sent over fiber to the building. I haven't heard about the TV VDSL service for sometime now and I don't believe new installs are using this either since they have to be fed with fibre.
It's a lot more cost effective to install one larger dish and feed the entire building instead.
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makkaoui
join:2008-09-28
North York, ON
| I think they are continuing to do that with the buildings that already have fiber.. when i go to that website , in the bottom i see this when i put my postal code..
Internal use: VDSL
you are right though .. i dont think they are adding this type of service to more buildings .. but for the buildings that already have it , they are still provisioning on it. |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON | So my question still stands. Does it get fed via phone, coax or a new line? |
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sbrook
Premium,Mod
join:2001-12-14
H0H 0H0
·Rogers Hi-Speed
Host:
Rogers
Bell Canada
| Your question was answered ...
The building is fed by fibre from the CO to an HFC node in your building.
The units in the building are fed by coax to a Motorola box which acts as a modem and telephone and TV splitter.
The outputs of the box look like normal TV coax, internet RJ45 and telephone RJ11 cables. |
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me13
@bell.ca | He not on the VDSL platform if he lives in Trenton, he has a large dish on the building's roof |
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON | reply to HoboJ
Ok thanks. Only one last question, not sure if anyone can answer. I have cogeco for internet, if bell takes over the coax going into my apartment I can't have cogeco anymore can I? |
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Deadpool
Go Sens Go
Premium,VIP
join:2001-03-29
Canada
·Bell Sympatico
| said by HoboJ :Ok thanks. Only one last question, not sure if anyone can answer. I have cogeco for internet, if bell takes over the coax going into my apartment I can't have cogeco anymore can I? That question is one for your Building Management. If they've signed an exclusive deal with Bell, then you're correct, no more Cogeco.
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Kardinal
Canadair CT-114 Tutor
Premium
join:2001-02-04
N of 49th
clubs:
·Bell Sympatico
| reply to HoboJ
If it is recently made available, I believe it is the service BryceS and Deadpool described, which is the dish-like service delivered to each unit, not VDSL. It would arrive via coax after being delivered to the building via the dish on the roof and distributed by equipment in the basement. You would then have boxes for each TV, as you would in a single family home for TVs fed by the dish on the roof.
As for your Cogeco Internet question, I'm not sure but I would think that only one provider can use the feed to your unit at a time unless there are linesharing methods on coax the way there are on copper pairs for telco networks (separate voice and DSL providers on the same pair).
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HoboJ
join:2008-03-27
Trenton, ON
·Cogeco Cable
| reply to Deadpool
said by Deadpool :That question is one for your Building Management. If they've signed an exclusive deal with Bell, then you're correct, no more Cogeco. Well basic cogeco cable still comes standard so theres no exclusive deals made. Still this sucks, cogeco is the only way I can get decent speeds/unthrottled connection. Hot damn I was so close to finally making my TV useful again too.  Ohwell thanks for the help everyone. |
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eots
join:2003-02-04
·TekSavvy Solutions..
1 edit | reply to Deadpool
said by Deadpool :said by HoboJ :Ok thanks. Only one last question, not sure if anyone can answer. I have cogeco for internet, if bell takes over the coax going into my apartment I can't have cogeco anymore can I? That question is one for your Building Management. If they've signed an exclusive deal with Bell, then you're correct, no more Cogeco. My building also had BellTV installed on the roof this year. They use the existing Rogers cabling in the building and just switch the connection from Rogers to Bell equipment. There is no exclusive deal in my building, you have a choice between Rogers or Bell and interestingly very few have switched to Bell. Bell held 2 separate events in the lobby 6 months apart and received very little interest from tenants both times. LookTV failed in my building several years ago due to lack of interest. |
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