On January 23, 2012 at 14:31, Ernie Gilman said...
In the late nineties, the late nineties, I was called on to add satellite to a new spec home that had been built into the side of a hill.
The driveway led up to the garage; stairs led up to three stories above that. The garage was at one end of the house. The idiot who designed the house cabling had run three RG-59 (in the late nineties!), one to each floor; on each floor, each cable daisy-chained through two-way splitters so that the signal at the far end was 12 dB lower than at the garage end of the house.
I changed the design so the cable signal was boosted like 20 dB before it went up to the floors, and then drop taps dropped signal across each floor.
But they wanted satellite, too. I was able to diplex satellite to the end of the house closest to the garage, but that was it.
Idiots.
LOL.
There was a custom home builder in the Fallbrook California area that did the same thing (or at least his electrician did).
Even odder, the RG-59 used had "WALMART LOSS PREVENTION" printed on it. I chuckled at the irony.
These were sold as "smart house" wired homes, all in the $1,000,000-$5,000,000 range.
Homeowners were none to happy when I told them I couldn't install Directv. No cable in the area either (rural).
I would use the brown pair unless it is in a mission critical area (office, av rack). I don't see use of gigabit in the kitchen anytime soon.
