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Posted by DLR on March 10, 2006, 9:38 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options >> In your search for the perfect splitter, consider dropping by
>> your local cable office. So far, everywhere I've lived, they
>> gladly hand out splitters as well as reasonable lengths of
>> terminated cable, just for asking.
>
> Here in Los Angeles, the field tachnicians are generous
> "judiciously". If you're a customer, they'll give you up to 100'
> of RG6 quad-shield cable and they'll even cut it and attach
> connectors. That's because it's in their interest to keep
> you happy and using good cable that prevents leakage into
> and out of their network. But the business office can't be
> bothered. In such instances, it helps to just walk into the
> field ops truck yard and speak to a supervisor and explain
> that you're a customer and sound you know what you're
> doing. Using terms like "RG6 quad-shield",
> "Snap-N-Seal F-connector", "2-way splitter good for
> 1 gigahertz" does help. I once did that. At first the techs
> denied that they had any splitters in their trucks. But after
> a brief conversation, they were giving me stuff that I hadn't
> even asked for.
>
The smarter cable office have learned (are learning) that giving out a
20 splitters that costs them $1 in bulk can save a service call that
costs $200 (after accounting for overheard).
After an installer in Chapel Hill, NC dropped off a cable modem for a
new house I mentioned getting a powered splitter to handle all the
prewired drops. He handed me a new one from his truck. :)
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