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tonyou812

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I am in the middle of a new residential rough wire and the builder just told me that this house is going to be getting verizon fios and that it needs a "special cable" for it to work right.But Hes not sure if its rg6 or cat5. From what i gather it only needs an RG6 home run. Am i correct?
 
Fios in most areas is designed to be able to replace cable tv easily so it runs on RG6. Around here they install the Fios usually where the phone comes in along with a battery backup (receptacle required). From there they use the existing RG6 in house from the cable company to get the signal to the TV's and verizon modem. Though most Fios boxes also have a seperate ethernet jack so they have the option of using that jack with CAT5e or CAT6 wire run directly to the router or computer.
 
Thank you thats what i kinda figured. It would seem silly to require a "special wire" for it. Is it better to run quad shielded cable or a waste of money?
 
I would use the quad shield. It should reduce the chances of having any significant interference. The quad shield shouldn't cost much more, around here 500ft rolls are less than $80 lately.
 
emf10 said:
I would use the quad shield. It should reduce the chances of having any significant interference. The quad shield shouldn't cost much more, around here 500ft rolls are less than $80 lately.
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Is that really true or just a myth? Any reliable sources on the quality of quad shield? Seems to me it would just act as a bigger antenna?
 
When you say FIOS you need to be more specific. Is it TV, Broadband and phone, or one of the above? FIOS requires an RG-6 from their NID to splitter for TV and from there one RG-6 to the router. From the router you'll need CAT5 or CAT5e to each Ethernet jack location. Depending on how the equipment is layed out running an RG-6 to each location will work for TV but is useless for an Ethernet connection to a PC. Also you will need a separate CAT3 or CAT 5 for each phone jack.

Some careful planning is required before you go and pull the cables since the Verizon guys won't be there until after the walls and ceilings have been closed up.
 
It is for TV. I plan on running a phone line and a coax to each requested room. I am also running a cat5 to the study, kitchen and master bed room for possible computer locations. Does this cover most of my bases?
 
FWIW, the AT&T version, known as U-verse, carries all services to a router, which then breaks out into ethernet and feeds to their TV top receiver. They can run RG6 or Cat3/Cat5 from their NID to the router. Our intsaller preffered CAT5.
 
tonyou812 said:
It is for TV. I plan on running a phone line and a coax to each requested room. I am also running a cat to the study, kitchen and master bed room for possible computer locations. Does this cover most of my bases?
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Sounds like it should as long as all of the equipment originates at the same location where all of the cables end.
 
stickboy1375 said:
Is that really true or just a myth? Any reliable sources on the quality of quad shield? Seems to me it would just act as a bigger antenna?
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I think there is some truth to it. The more metal around the center wire, the less radio waves can penetrate to it. Though I've noticed some brands of quadshield are not good, like Radio Shack for instance.
 
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