On August 2, 2016 at 06:58, thecapnredfish said...
I am glad you know why you are pulling the cable you use. I was simply providing some info. Many people pull overkill cable because they are so worried about the future what ifs or just assume it is better. Have considered RG-11?
Something is only overkill, until it is not overkill.
Many installers don't pay attention to the length of runs they do in a home.
I lost a bid to prewire this home - knowing my quality, the builder still choose to go with some fly-by-night company because they were almost 1/2 my cost.
The house was only 4000sqft but kind of long. They put the LV panel at the opposite end of the house (under the stairs) from incoming services. I was going to have it in the equipment room with the home theater, that was on the same side of the home as the services. Made no sense why they did that (really stupid).
They used cheap CCS RG6 and had over 100ft runs thru the house. So from dish, to panel, to receivers thruout the home; some runs were averaging almost 200ft. Once moved in, guess what the DirecTV installer told them when they were having problems installing the system. LOL you can't fix stupid. Even if I had been 1/2 asleep and had put the panel in the same location, I guarantee the DTV installer wouldn't have had problems with my cables at those lengths.
RG-11 is generally to rigid to run in homes. The bend radius is huge. Plus, you would need to be going over 250+ft before it would even need to be a consideration. I have used it to connect mutli-buildings together before.
