What's a good place to buy bulk RG6 coaxial cable? Quad-shield or no quad-shield?

[bruceb]

Best place I have found is Anixter.com or 1-800-ANIXTER
They carry many brands, including Belden and last time I used
them, the cost was very reasonable for a 1000 foot reel of RG-6 (Belden #1189A)

 

[FoBoT]

what you need is MONSTER cable
200 ft of Monster cable, should cost less than a baby elephant, i think

 

[Lotheron]

200' is NOT bulk!

This, any boxed wire you can buy from lowes/home depot cannot be considered bulk.

 

[ManBearPig]

OP, it would really help if you would give a better description of what you are wanting to do.

Is this a new run from the cable main line?

You adding an outlet to a room?

How many TVs do you have in your home right now?

Lets say you have 4 TVs in your house right now. You add 200 feet of cable to another outlet, chances are your upper channels are going to look terrible.

By the time you go from the main line, 100 feet to your house, through a ground block, 50 feet into the attic, through a 4 way, 200 feet of cable you are asking about, you are looking at maybe 30 db of signal lose on the upper channels.

The signal probably leaves the main line at 15 - 20 db. If you want to put a digital box at the end of the 200 foot run, there is no way its going to work with a -10, -15 signal strength.

Not quite cable. It's going from the LNB on a satellite dish to the wall, and from the wall to the receiver/tuner. There is one in the living room and one in my parents bedroom.

 

[Howard]

Best place I have found is Anixter.com or 1-800-ANIXTER
They carry many brands, including Belden and last time I used
them, the cost was very reasonable for a 1000 foot reel of RG-6 (Belden #1189A)

http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-technical-discussions/98459-ooops-i-used-belden-1189a-will.html

 

[Modelworks]

Any good brand of RG6/U will work fine. Unless the transmitter for the station is right next door it isn't going to get through normal shielded cable. Even then it would be highly attenuated. Quad shield was designed not for CATV but for computer network use back in the 1980's. The interfaces then had very poor SNR and the slightest noise could cause bit errors. When the market dried up for coax based computer networks they shifted the product to the CATV market.

 

[ManBearPig]

Any good brand of RG6/U will work fine. Unless the transmitter for the station is right next door it isn't going to get through normal shielded cable. Even then it would be highly attenuated. Quad shield was designed not for CATV but for computer network use back in the 1980's. The interfaces then had very poor SNR and the slightest noise could cause bit errors. When the market dried up for coax based computer networks they shifted the product to the CATV market.

Ah, a $$$$ issue.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Find an Electrical Supply house in the area. Many if not most will have a small walk in counter for small time contractors or contractors that pick their stuff up(or want to waste some time. They won't cut it for you so you'll have to buy a whole box but it'll likely be cheaper than lowes for a full box.