Splicing CaTV Coax 3

[campyracr]

New house, builder decided my cable jack should be on one wall, wife wants it on another wall.
Cable is easily accessable in basement.
I want to splice the cable in the basement with some sort of T connection and put another cable outlet on the wife wall.

I've never cut CaTV cable before, and I am loath to take advice from the pimply faced kid at Radio Shack.

Any suggestions? Concerns? considerations?

 

[vaoldschl]

Pimply faced kid on the internet says buy the splitter and three ends at Radio Shack, cut the cable, strip it back enough that the copper protrudes through the connector and crimp on the ends. They make specific tools to crimp coax ends but a pair of pliers will do in a pinch. The piece of this to be sure of is the splitter, spend the extra money to get the good one.

 

[daronwilson]

Best way would be to run a new cable to the new location if at all possible. Second choice is to cut the existing cable, add a splitter, run new cable to new location.

Stay away from Radio Shack if possible, get good quality RG6 coax, good quality compression or snapNseal connectors, and make sure the splitter you get is rated to at least 1000 Mhz.

If you don't want to buy a good tool and parts for just this one cable, it may just be cheaper in the long run to hire it done correctly.

Hope that helps, good luck!
It is only my opinion, based on my experience and education...I am always willing to learn, educate me!
Daron J. Wilson, RCDD
daron.wilson@lhmorris.com

 

[wires]

"Second choice is to cut the existing cable, add a splitter, run new cable to new location."

Third choice is to run the existing cable to the new location and blank plate the old location. If the cable is long enough you may not need to change the connector.

 

[campyracr]

Thanks folks. I'll have to look into the "network" connection to see how the wires come in, and if adding a cable is even plausable.

Short of that I'll take your advice on options 2 & 3.