wkearney99
Senior Member
Now that the drywall is up I'm going to have to start terminating all the low voltage wiring.
I've got multiple Leviton boxes for all of it, hopefully plenty of room (and enough slack on the ends of the cabling).
I've got double coax pulled to 28 locations, along with a few singles here and there. Totaling about 64 cables. I certainly don't need to make all of them active, at least not all right now. Most rooms have more than one "TV location" and the coax was easier to install during framing than pulling it later.
I'm wondering what's best for handling distribution of FIOS cable TV over the home-run pulled RG6 coax wires?
Items like these:
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-47693-16P-Premium-Amplified-Module/dp/B002VJKAWG
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-47690-6C2-Passive-Video-Splitter/dp/B002VJKAVM
Should I use the passive or the active units?
Realistically I don't expect to have more than 5 locations that would have TVs in need of the FIOS cable connection. But I could see having MOCA network devices, possibly in locations in addition to those having TVs. I'd want to avoid putting in a distribution setup that caused issues with either MOCA or digital cable.
That and how should I distribute the signal to what will likely be multiple splitters?
The longest of the connections is about 150 feet of cable. That's one of the TV locations. The others are typically 50 to 80ft, max.
I don't forsee ever going back to DirecTV or satellite, but at least I have cabling that could handle it. Realizing, of course, that I'd have to change splitters for multi-switch gizmos. So I'm not worried about that, for now.
So which splitters should I be considering? Or, perhaps more importantly, what should I avoid?
I've got multiple Leviton boxes for all of it, hopefully plenty of room (and enough slack on the ends of the cabling).
I've got double coax pulled to 28 locations, along with a few singles here and there. Totaling about 64 cables. I certainly don't need to make all of them active, at least not all right now. Most rooms have more than one "TV location" and the coax was easier to install during framing than pulling it later.
I'm wondering what's best for handling distribution of FIOS cable TV over the home-run pulled RG6 coax wires?
Items like these:
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-47693-16P-Premium-Amplified-Module/dp/B002VJKAWG
http://www.amazon.com/Leviton-47690-6C2-Passive-Video-Splitter/dp/B002VJKAVM
Should I use the passive or the active units?
Realistically I don't expect to have more than 5 locations that would have TVs in need of the FIOS cable connection. But I could see having MOCA network devices, possibly in locations in addition to those having TVs. I'd want to avoid putting in a distribution setup that caused issues with either MOCA or digital cable.
That and how should I distribute the signal to what will likely be multiple splitters?
The longest of the connections is about 150 feet of cable. That's one of the TV locations. The others are typically 50 to 80ft, max.
I don't forsee ever going back to DirecTV or satellite, but at least I have cabling that could handle it. Realizing, of course, that I'd have to change splitters for multi-switch gizmos. So I'm not worried about that, for now.
So which splitters should I be considering? Or, perhaps more importantly, what should I avoid?