I added on to my house a couple of years ago. I had to extend a run for my satellite to the new bedroom. I did all the work, including putting the connectors on. The picture was perfect. Later on, I upgraded the Sat. service and the techs had to come in to install the new equipment. When they came to my connectors, they promptly took out their cutters and cut my connectors off and put on theirs!:rant:
The barely trained service techs are the absolute worst. I got an AT&T tech fired after I documented how bad a job he'd done at my parents house a few years ago.
He tagged the demarc unit to the basement wall with a single screw (the demarc unit is supposed to go on the EXTERIOR of the building), draped coax and CAT5 ACROSS the front of the breaker panel, and ripped apart two punched down cables on a CAT5 patch panel to run a phone line that he was asked not to run.
AT&T reimbursed my parents for six months of service and fired the tech after I made a stink their behalf. The district manager actually came out to see how bad of a job the guy had done.
When I had cable service hooked up at my house, I told the tech to land his coax on the grounding block, and leave. He told me he had to inspect the wiring. I said no. I'd done all the wiring inside the house, and he didn't need to worry about it. I finally relented and told him he could hook up his signal strength tester where the cable modem was connected - he told me he'd never seen such strong consistent signal strength before
I used dual shield RG6 and Home Depot -quality compression connectors. Weird how not rushing usually makes things better...
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