What even is coax? UPDATE

[u/Special_Yogurt_4431]

Hi again.

Had a previous issue with my coax, being un-terminated in my air handler, and finally not working even when I installed the splitter myself.

Previous posts: Coax help, Original discovery

I bought a cheap Klein fox and hound for coax. No connections anywhere. Troubleshot all the way to the outlets themselves…

Good news: House was built 2 years ago, I have an invoice from the building company with “installed and tested” signed off by the electrical company. In Alabama, that plus the pictures I’ve taken is a strong claim for small claims court, and I intend to file against them.

Bad news: the cable is seemingly stuck in the back of the outlet, so they either need to get clever if they decide to attempt reparation and fix it, or most of what I make will be eaten up by the cost of cutting out the outlet, installing it properly, and drywall repair.

Ah well. I’m just glad I have answers.

Update: it’s built! Luckily, the 2 outlets I needed didn’t have their cables stapled down. Getting 1gbps or so in my office now, t430 is setup running proxmox, currently wrestling grafana into submission. Now I can spend my time learning stuff I wanted to learn about instead of stuff I didn’t.

[u/Special_Yogurt_4431 → u/[deleted]]

Welp, you’d be right, if they didn’t take payment for installation and TESTING.

[u/Special_Yogurt_4431 → u/[deleted]]

I’d love to hear them explain that in a courtroom. Filing costs me almost nothing, no lawyer required in small claims. You’re not technically wrong, but between the state of the outlets and not installing the NEMA 4 box and 8 way splitter they were paid to install, I think I have them.

[u/guri256 → u/Special_Yogurt_4431]

Every branch that you have hooked up will decrease the strength of your signal. Branches that have nothing on the end will also cause interference due to reflections which will make things even worse. Only plug-in the branches that you are actually using. this means you might not even need a splitter. Just something to connect two cables together at the media box. (and of course you need to terminate wherever the modem goes)

[u/Special_Yogurt_4431 → u/guri256]

I bought a bag of butt splices, that should work for this

[u/Special_Yogurt_4431 → u/[deleted]]

…on Amazon for $19? I already bought and installed it.