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Question regarding aerial RF and cable f-type connections...

Right, here's the background. Moved into my house earlier this year and no aerial for TV (Sky dish yes, NTL/Virgin Cable yes, not RF aerial) SO I had an aerial fitted, and the house had three points already installed - 1 in each upstairs bedroom and one in the lounge. We decided to just use these points for the aerial points, and disconnected the NTL cable them, and plugged in the aerial cable, and sorted - three points all recieving freeview.

When Virgin came round to insallt my broadband, he had to use one of the upstairs bedroom (front) points for the broadband connection, so all we did was swap the freeview coax from that point (outside) to the NTL cable outside.

Course this has left me without a Freeview point in that room.

So what I plan to do is this;

de-terminate the broadband coax and pull it out the wall. Then enlarge the whole slightly so I can fit two coax's in there. Connect one back up to broadband, and the other to the now spare output on the dist amp connected to the aerial - thus having a source for both broadband and freeview coming into the room.

Simple.

My question is : who do I terminate it in the room nicely?

The points in all the rooms are all f-type terminals - the aerial guy knocked me up two leads with f-type on one end (for the wall point), and normal RF aerial on the other (for the freeview box/tv)

Each room has a box on it and inside is an f-type splitter, like so;

http://www.digital-world.uk.com/imag...ter%202way.jpg

One is marked TV and the other RADIO.

Now, I know nothing about f-type connections, but is the coax the same as recular coax, more so, can I de-terminate the broad band coax, and fit to the behind of one of these;

http://www.maplin.co.uk/images/300/qx92.jpg

And do the same with the aerial coax. Then inside house, terminate the freeview box coax as normal (RF plug, and re-terminate the broadband coax also with an RF plug... (this would mean getting rid of the cable f-tpe splitter thingy completely and just having the broadband coax outside connect directly to the coax inside plugged into the cable modem)

Anyone follow me?

I just want it as neat as poss, but don't want to drill a fresh hole, and install a second wall plate.
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