alkemyst
No Lifer
Reception is much much better. Most of the coax ends including the home run fell off just trying to pull the new cable up (I used a barrel connector and attached my new cables to them)....my attic was a mess with splitters from comcast and the previous owner.
I had:
The home run had a really crappy splice, it fell right out just pulling it lightly (I had to crawl all the way to the roof edge to get the new cable and that really sucked It also had two barrel splices between where it joined the main line and finally ended up at the first splitter. It was also only RG59 for the majority. The Comcast dude spliced in a piece of RG6 from the main line to the roof line only and told me he re-did it to the splitter.
a 1 into 2 which fed my internet and all the tv circuits.
The internet circuit had a splice in the middle with a barrel connector.
The TV circuit went to a 8 way box with 5 being used. Instead of running a 6th lead to the guest bedroom the installer put a splitter between our master and the guest room. So we were about -30db in our bedroom with a home run that was 'loose'.
The guest room end fell off at the splitter. Same with my wife's room. Crappy splices. We haven't used those rooms for TV yet though, but I am sure it would have been craptastic.
I didn't need cable in my living room nor the extra run in the family room. The main family room coax end was cracked as well at the splitter.
Channels are better, we used to have a lot of snow on the lower analog channels, especially Fox on channel 11, now Fox is crystal clear. My internet went from 12MB to 13.8MB on speedboost...faster in benchmark, but not really noticable in reality.
My signal strength really cleaned up though...I was at about 30db SNR now I am hitting 38db (I think 40db is the best anyone gets). My power level went from about -6 to 0 (the accepted range is -10 to 10 so I was ok either way).
My upstream is at 41db now...it was around 35 before which is the lowest acceptable.
The job took a lot longer due to not being able to use the old cable to snake three of the runs + then having to redrill one wall cap because the way they did it was to just drill big enough for the bare cable and must have terminated it in the room...I had to do a lot of navigating in and out of the attic which is a pretty big process in mine. There is a set of ducts you have to go over and another to go under...you only have about 3' of height at the peak.
Battle damage is one back scratch from nails, and a pretty good head slice when i was trying to crawl to the very edge off my roof line. My wife freaked out due to the blood on my back and across my face.
The paladin protite tool works great. They give you a manual with the 'settings' to use for every fastener out there. For the F connectors I was using I set it at 7...
amazon has a nice package on the crimper, a stripper, a cutter and a flare tool for $86 shipped. I picked up 50 connectors from them as well. I bought my RG6 locally..3 GHZ swept for about $50 for 500'. I also picked up a 2 way and 4 way GE ultra pro grade set of splitters...
I had:
The home run had a really crappy splice, it fell right out just pulling it lightly (I had to crawl all the way to the roof edge to get the new cable and that really sucked It also had two barrel splices between where it joined the main line and finally ended up at the first splitter. It was also only RG59 for the majority. The Comcast dude spliced in a piece of RG6 from the main line to the roof line only and told me he re-did it to the splitter.
a 1 into 2 which fed my internet and all the tv circuits.
The internet circuit had a splice in the middle with a barrel connector.
The TV circuit went to a 8 way box with 5 being used. Instead of running a 6th lead to the guest bedroom the installer put a splitter between our master and the guest room. So we were about -30db in our bedroom with a home run that was 'loose'.
The guest room end fell off at the splitter. Same with my wife's room. Crappy splices. We haven't used those rooms for TV yet though, but I am sure it would have been craptastic.
I didn't need cable in my living room nor the extra run in the family room. The main family room coax end was cracked as well at the splitter.
Channels are better, we used to have a lot of snow on the lower analog channels, especially Fox on channel 11, now Fox is crystal clear. My internet went from 12MB to 13.8MB on speedboost...faster in benchmark, but not really noticable in reality.
My signal strength really cleaned up though...I was at about 30db SNR now I am hitting 38db (I think 40db is the best anyone gets). My power level went from about -6 to 0 (the accepted range is -10 to 10 so I was ok either way).
My upstream is at 41db now...it was around 35 before which is the lowest acceptable.
The job took a lot longer due to not being able to use the old cable to snake three of the runs + then having to redrill one wall cap because the way they did it was to just drill big enough for the bare cable and must have terminated it in the room...I had to do a lot of navigating in and out of the attic which is a pretty big process in mine. There is a set of ducts you have to go over and another to go under...you only have about 3' of height at the peak.
Battle damage is one back scratch from nails, and a pretty good head slice when i was trying to crawl to the very edge off my roof line. My wife freaked out due to the blood on my back and across my face.
The paladin protite tool works great. They give you a manual with the 'settings' to use for every fastener out there. For the F connectors I was using I set it at 7...
amazon has a nice package on the crimper, a stripper, a cutter and a flare tool for $86 shipped. I picked up 50 connectors from them as well. I bought my RG6 locally..3 GHZ swept for about $50 for 500'. I also picked up a 2 way and 4 way GE ultra pro grade set of splitters...
