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  • Dizzy, true... but most ISPs use BT's copper to get to your home and that is twisted pair not co-ax and hence offers worse performance for high frequency signals...

    Most annoying advert 2008

  • The antenna was made from a surplus pizza-dish satellite rig, a polished tomato soup can and a length of co-ax that descended to a pigtail with the right fitting for a wireless card.

    Boing Boing: April 20, 2003 - April 26, 2003 Archives 2003

  • He directed fire on this team and destroyed them with his. 30-cal "co-ax."

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • “You shall learn to fly; I’ll exercise you; then we shall fly into the meadows and pay a visit to the frogs; they will bow before us in the water, and sing ‘Co-ax! co-ax!

    The Storks 1909

  • Not to be confused with Virgin Media's "fibre optic broadband" which is a fibre and co-ax cable hybrid, fibre to the home provides a direct fibre from your premises to a local aggregation point, often in the nearest telephone exchange or a street-side cabinet and can provide speeds from 100meg.

    thinkbroadband news feed 2010

  • As they withdrew, they were literally hosing them off each others tanks with the co-ax machine guns.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • As they withdrew, they were literally hosing them off each others tanks with the co-ax machine guns.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • I had to visit Dr Dick Smith, who prescribed a special quad-cable to insert into my co-ax hole.

    The Age News Headlines 2010

  • I had to visit Dr Dick Smith, who prescribed a special quad-cable to insert into my co-ax hole.

    The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

  • The wording in the Digital Britain report was such that it covered all metallic telephone lines, and while Virgin Media makes great use of fibre-optic in its advertising, the reality is that the telephone line to the home is supplied over a twisted pair copper cable running alongside the metal co-ax cable, and thus will be subject to the tax.

    thinkbroadband news feed 2010

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