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Posted by drydem on January 22, 2008, 9:53 am
> Bill M. wrote:
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> > Serial wiring? Ouch, what a mess of a bad idea. As you know, the best
> > thing would be to rewire the entire house with 'home run' cables,
> > preferably quad shield RG-6 or equivalent rather than RG-59. That's a
> > lot of work, though.
>
> > Barring that, I would add a 2-way splitter where the cable arrives at
> > the house. One output of the new splitter would connect back into the
> > house wiring and would power all of the existing TV jacks, and the
> > other output of the new splitter would connect to a new cable that
> > would run up the outside of the house to the new office. With this
> > plan, your new office would have two cable jacks, one for TV and one
> > for Internet/TV. If necessary, you could still add an RF amp to the
> > non-Internet side of the new splitter without significantly affecting
> > the cable modem.
>
> I agree with everything except the running of the cable outside. =A0That
> would have to be a last resort. =A0If at all possible, try to find a way
> to run it inside if that's what you end up doing.
>
> Another alternative would be to put a decent wireless router at the entry
> point and going wireless to the third floor for your internet access.
> That would eliminate the need for tearing up your walls or hanging wire
> outside the house.
>
> Oftentimes, you can replace parts of your run by just tying one (or even
> two cables) to the end of your existing cable and pulling the new cable
> through, but that can easily be defeated by staples and such that may
> have been used. =A0You could test that easily enough by just tying some
> string to the end of the cable and seeing what happens if you give a bit
> of a tug on the next outlet in line and see if the cable runs free.
yes.
I thought about that - but I decided
against doing that because of the way the RG59
cable is threaded. The RG59 cable is threaded
from the roof/attic and winds through three
bedrooms (third floor) to the living room ( second
floor) and then drops down into an unfinished
basement(first/ground floor). The attic cable
was put there by the builder to accommodate
an attic TV aerial antenna since a rooftop TV
aerial antennas are banned by the HOA.
Rethreading the cable is also best done as a
two person job ( one feeding cable, one pulling
the cable). Given the limited time I have allocated
for this project - I decided that rethreading would
be best for a later project.
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> That would allow you to at least run parallel cables along the serial
> route which wouldn't be as short as home runs could be, but the RG6
> would make up for the loss due to length over the RG59.
>
> I would think any RG6 or RG11 should be great for longer runs of
> non-baseband cable (dual or quad shielded only if you can afford it),
> but a CM rated RG59 will handle most of your *short* haul needs with
> not much less dB loss than RG6 (in your case with them all strung
> together serially, that probably isn't true).
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