[kwlug-disc] OT:Cable Splitters/Rogers

[CrankyOldBugger]

Satellite signals can be split if you use a powered 4x4 splitter.  I did as
much at my previous residence.  I seem to recall that I was even splitting
a dual-horned dish at that time too, so the powered switch was necessary.

But you're right, these guys are paid to do the job quickly, not nicely.  I
just wish I wasn't busy at the time so I could have noticed the crap job
they were doing and possibly said something beforehand.  If they had taken
their time to do it right, they would have been able to run up the walls
without any problems (it's a sidesplit house, so only the main floor and
the basement).



On 9 June 2014 13:57, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca> wrote:

> 3 LNB dish? Or dual?
>
> If 3, makes sense, home runs / no signal loss dish to TV (box).
>
> Otherwise, you have somewhat of a point, split (the once) inside the
> house, not outside. (Satellite can be split?)
>
> Let alone, easier to get a cable to a floor outside, than inside. (Up
> through floor, hope you don't run into electrical, and so on. Avoided by
> entering a room horizontally.)
>
> They get paid per job, not for aesthetics, so unless you get cranky, they
> install in the quickest / easiest fashion, for them. (Not you.) From what I
> have encountered, this has more to do with how they're paid /
> understandable, and stems from the payer (Rogers) - payment not for
> esthetics but for making a customer go away. Let alone they get beat up if
> they don't get one more service call in per day. Less time at your place,
> maybe they can get another call in. Or knock off early that day.
>
> Andrew K's note about signal loss / interference could also answer why 3
> holes in house, not a single hole with 3 cables going through it.
>
>
> On 14-06-09 01:25 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
>> When we bought the house and had the Bell satellite guy come do the
>> install, he ran the three leads from the dish individually to the three
>> tvs, so three holes in my house.  Would it have killed him to run just one
>> lead to the basement and split from there?  He did a really ugly job.
>>
>>
>> On 9 June 2014 13:17, Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) <
>> aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Another aside: A friend just had a new Rogers install. The guy must have
>>> used Thor’s staple gun; ALL of his brand new cable was squished to almost
>>> half its diameter at every staple. So much for Rogers expert installers!
>>>
>>>
>>
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