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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
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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.
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He directed fire on this team and destroyed them with his. 30-cal "co-ax."
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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You shall learn to fly; Ill 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
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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.
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As they withdrew, they were literally hosing them off each others tanks with the co-ax machine guns.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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As they withdrew, they were literally hosing them off each others tanks with the co-ax machine guns.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I had to visit Dr Dick Smith, who prescribed a special quad-cable to insert into my co-ax hole.
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I had to visit Dr Dick Smith, who prescribed a special quad-cable to insert into my co-ax hole.
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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.
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