Hello all, I am a new member, and I hear this is the forum where the best information comes from. Unfortunately, I am unable to contribute much, but I appreciate the knowledge. Recently, I had Fios installed in my home, and I am now doing the permanent wiring throughout the house. The Verizon tech did a dry install just to test everything, and aside from slightly slower (70 mbs) wireless on 100/100 connection, everything was fine. I am running CAT6 through the whole house, as well as RG6 quad, as well a HDMI and USB jacks. My question below are quite basic for this forum, however the Verizon forum didnt really yield that much information. Thank you guys
-I believe my first mistake began right off the ONT box where I installed a channel master amplified booster to split the coaxial. I did this becasue the ONT box is in the garage, the modem is really only 10 ft away in the office, however the first set top is about 70 ft away. After doing reading I this may have been a mistake even though the splitter is advertised as having a return path for the modem. Suggestions?
-Aside from the splitter directly from the ONT box, what is the philosophy as it relates to splitters vs home runs for coaxial. Example, coming from the first split from the ONT, this coaxial run travels about 60-70 to the area where the set tops get connected. Should I then install a 4 way splitter and run longer runs to each box or run multiple splitters and shorter runs to each box?
-How critical is avoiding higher voltage cables when running RG^ quad and CAT6? I feel a bit limited in my wiring paths being obsessed with avoiding regular 110v cables
-I am running a cat6, USB, HDMI, cat6 to the TV, and cat6 to the set top. I have a 16 port switch, however, would it be smarter to run a smaller switch at each location rather than running 3 separate cat6 runs to each tv location?
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