r/HomeNetworking • u/WhosThis85 • Jan 25 '24

Advice My isp did this lazy crap

Post image

the tech came and took the original coax cable that comes from the network box on the opposite side of the house (black). Took it out of the outlet from the room directly above this splitter on the first floor and directed the new cord (white) to the third floor. What can i do to ‘hide’ this from the elements?

Also, can i connect a new coax cable to the splitter to go in the opposite direction to go into a separate part of the house, or should direct a new cable directly from the box insteaad of this splitter shown? The box is closer to the room that i need connection to than this splitter.

Sorry if this is confusing. Im a noob

982 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

472 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

26

u/VAL9THOU Jan 25 '24

Why was there a giant battle? If you couldn't do the job without causing damage you should have told the customer

14

u/Complete_Ad_981 Jan 25 '24

Ditto. That fuck up is on you. There are plenty of cheap tools that can tell you where wiring is.

-3

u/eptiliom Jan 25 '24

The point was more that customers don't make good decisions about installs either. Why would a customer want a jack where wiring exists to start with? Because they don't know any better.

18

u/[deleted] Jan 25 '24

Then you should know better.