Coax type- Spectrum says house needs re-wiring.

[RCW]

Had issues with internet/wi-fi last week. Television was fine.

Finally had to have service call.

Technician says none of the house wiring is acceptable, and he's not supposed to leave it in the house. Splitters were no good, etc.

I told him replace entrance, and get modem/wifi working, along with "main" television/cable box with it.

So, while house is wifi covered, no cable to other televisions, none of which are "smart" televisions. I'm a dumb guy in this respect.

While he did leave all my coax in place, The Tech took my splitters and cut the connectors off the cable at the entrance![emoji853]

So what's the story with 15 year old coax not working with these new technologies?

The kid left me 125 feet of wire at no cost to run the rest of the house (again). Said they would come back for terminations, etc. assume at no cost.

I'm sure there's technical reasons for this stuff. I think this is RG6 wire versus plain old coax with better signal insulation, etc??

I would just like to know why???????

Literally finished our siding project a month ago. All exterior wires, etc. were hidden, until he dropped the new cable entrance......can't ever have anything nice around here.....[emoji31]

Thanks guys! Done venting (whining really), and I am sure we've got an expert or two to make me feel better!!


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[85Hokie]

RCW,

this may help .....

https://sewelldirect.com/learning-center/rg59-or-rg6

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Simply put, if the coax in your house is RG59 it won't carry the signal.
and normal splitters drop the signal tremendously, you really don't want to use them.

 

[Daren Todd]

Our dish dropped out around 5 years ago. Ended up being the splitters that were installed. Apparently it was old technology. New splitters were made for digital signal from the dish.

Older cables and splitters weren't designed for digital signal, just analog.

We just got our dsl tied into fiber optics. That's been a huge difference. Phone company had to come out for a small fee and update the phone line to the house, and run a cat 5 cable to the phone Jacks. Swapped out our WiFi modem as well. Bumped us from 1Mbps to 50 Mbps Used to take 48 hours to update my Tom Tom GPS. Now take 1/2 hour to update both mine and my wife's

 

[RCW]

Thanks, guys!

I did some research early this morning, and now I get it!

The technician said he could do some of the install, but they run everything outside along the siding.

Since house was JUST done, would much rather run interior. So, I get to re-do it.

 

[sagor]

RG-59 is older technology, ok for older CATV systems, but not good enough for satellite TV. Both are equivalent (impedance), and in fact RG-6 is probably easier to find (and cheaper) due to the large volume of cable produced for the TV market. Also, RG-6 installation of those "F" connectors is easier if using the right tools (as a tech would have). RG-6 has less signal loss as well....

Same goes for the older splitters, they were limited in upper frequency response. Newer splitters are better.

As for networking cables, use Cat6 if possible. Cat5e is viable if you already have some. Both will carry a 1 Gigabit Ethernet signal a distance of 100M

 

[maclean]

RG-6 and CAT-6...but run inner duct or conduit up to the attic or down to the crawl space. Use a four inch box with a single gang plate so you have plenty of box space for bend radius. Then you're set for now and the future. I even ran a clothesline across my attic so I can drag cable from one end to other without crawling.

 

[skeets]

And dat chillins is why I is why I ran RG8 for the radio, sometimes bigger is better

 

[sagor]

And dat chillins is why I is why I ran RG8 for the radio, sometimes bigger is better

And you have to use "RG8" type for radios, as they are all 50 ohms impedance. CATV/Satellite systems with RG6 are all 75 ohm. You cannot mix those cables.
PS: Use RG-213, never RG8. RG8 is not a regulated standard, and some of those cables are so lousy that one should throw then away (as in the old Radio Shack RG-8). For Marine radio, use LMR-400 cable. It is stiffer, but has a lot less losses in the cable (better signals) over any cable distance. Use LMR-240 for shorter radio runs.
Of course, anything 10 feet or less of a run, just about anything will work....

 

[skeets]

Yep you nailed it,, but back in the day there was a yagi Y quad 40 feet in the air. I never really understood what that Knight amplifier thingie did, I think it made it hear better