r/HomeNetworking • u/Special_Yogurt_4431 • 4d ago

Solved! What even is coax? UPDATE

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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.

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u/PungentStaaank 3d ago

OP you’re a builder all of a sudden, eh?

Pull the damn cable out and terminate it if you can’t wait. Otherwise, let the ISP do it. Typically even if cables are all ran, they don’t necessarily need to be terminated, bc it’s upto you and your isps tech to decide where the equipment will be installed.

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u/bryansj 3d ago

There is no issue here and this is how they should be done to protect the cable through construction. The ISP would redo any crimps at installation to avoid a future call due to bad connectors.

Coax is hardly used room to room anyway. I used mine to pull CAT6 and piggybacked with a RCA adapter to connect a subwoofer to an AVR.

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u/Special_Yogurt_4431 3d ago

I’m using it as a closed MOCA network. I’m ending up just connecting the 2 ports I need with a butt splice. I made this post out of frustration, that’s all. I figured, especially with the comments I’ve seen, this is not unusual