How to connect your home to the cable network?
To get BASE Internet in your living room, your home must be connected to the Wyre or VOO/Orange network on the street. That is what the distribution cable is for. No distribution cable yet? Then you will need a coaxial connection.
- It is important to know that you have to connect your home with the Wyre or VOO/Orange network. The network decides which kind of coaxial cable you need. Discover your network.
- If your home is a newly built flat or a house in a newly built neighbourhood, the contractor may have already pre-installed the drop cable. Be sure to check that with the contractor.
Find the closest termination point
We connect your home to the network by connection the coaxial cable to the closest termination point on the street. There are three types of termination points: in a box, on a pole, on a facade.
You cannot find the termination point? Contact us and we are happy to help!
Often on the property boundary with your neighbour, on the footpath. This could also be a few houses away or across the street.
Often together with electricity and street lighting.This can also be across the street.
Often at the level of the first floor or under the gutter.This could also be by the neighbours or even further away.
Determine how you need to lay the distribution cable
Have you found the termination point? Then you need to determine how you will lay your distribution cable. This will help you determine what length and type of cable to buy.
A few remarks
- Before laying the distribution cabel, it's useful to determine the location of your basic set-up (modem + network interface unit). You place it always where the distribution cable enters the home. Read more.
- You buy the entire distribution cable up to the drop cable termination point and lay the part on your property yourself. We finish the connection of your cable.
- From the connection of the distribution cable to the network, you automatically and irrevocably transfer ownership of the distribution cable to the relevant network supplier.
- Start in the room in the house where your basic set-up will be.
- Bring the distribution cable out through the wall.
- From here, lay the distribution cable underground.
- Go perpendicular toward the street.
- Make a gentle bend until you are parallel to the street side.
- Yes: go in a straight line to the agreed drop cable termination point.
- No: make sure you have enough extra distribution cable (in one piece) and lay it above ground by the property boundary, tied together on a roll.
- Start in the room in the house where your basic set-up will be.
- Bring the distribution cable out through the wall.
- From here, lay the distribution cable underground.
- Go perpendicular toward the street.
- Make a gentle bend until you are parallel to the street side.
- Go in a straight line to the agreed drop cable termination point, up to the propery boundary.
- Make sure you have enough extra distribution cable (in one piece) and lay it above ground by the property boundary, tied together on a roll.
Make sure there is a hole drilled in your facade.
- Start in the room in the house where your basic set-up will be.
- Bring the distribution cable out through the wall.
- Tie the distribution cable together and have it hang on your facade.
Determine the length and the type of the distribution cable
When you have determined the distance between the locations of your basic set-up and the termination point, add a few extra metres to the measured length, based on the type of distribution point and the network you have:
Wyre network
- in a box: + 3 metre
- on a pole: + 11 metre
- on a facade: + 3 metre
VOO/Orange network
- in a box: 20% extra
- on a pole: 20% extra
- on a facade: + 2 metre
Get your connection finished by BASE
Is the distribution cable ready? The BASE technician will then completes the connection. What will they do?
- They lay the cable beyond the property boundary if necessary.
- They obtain any necessary permits.
- They do the work on the public road.
- They connects your distribution cable to the termination point.
The extent of the works determines how much time we need to complete your cable connection. When digging in your street, for example, this takes longer because of the necessary permits.
Contact us in time to make an appointment for your cable connection.
