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I'm working on a house and I have made the decision to run CAT6 to each room with a patch panel - pretty simple since I mostly do this at my day job. However, I don't get into RJ-6 much. What I want to do is have a feed from my cable operator and then split it two thee backbones and then split that three times in each room. So I would have three drops in one room. If I put terminated caps on the unused cable will this be better?
I guess I'm looking for options....
- Run one cable to the attic and split it 9 times?
- Run 9 cables to the basement where I can disconnect/connect wires
- Run 3 cables for each room and then split that two three drops with termination ends on the unused wall jacks.
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Home run everything to a central location where you can conveniently connect and disconnect as needed, including feeds that will tie into the cable company's d-marc. Feel free to terminate all, but do not connect all those to one/or more splitter/s, only those that will be in use. If you need 9 TV's running at once, then there's a chance you may need some sort of amplifier.
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I believe you meant to write RG6.
What rusty said, do everything with homeruns, as few splits as possible.
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Every Time you use a passive splitter you are losing somewhere between -7 and -9 dB in signal strength at each port. This is ontop of the signal loss from the cable itself.
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OK; so it sounds like I should have a cable run for EACH drop in the room instead of running a backbone to the attic and splitting it.
I just don't want to get back in my attic - so I would do it two ways:
A) Run each drop down to the basement in the two story house
B) Run a backbone to each room (2) and then have the ability to move one TV in each room to 3 different walls.
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I'd choose A) Just label them 1-1, 1-2, 1-3 2-1, etc. Now you can assign the live TV to the appropriate cable and you're good to go.
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