<div dir="ltr">RG6 is thicker, better insulated. Less signal loss over long distances. The guy who hooked up my TekSavvy line gave me the standard lecture on it.<div><br></div><div>There's a very simple YouTube explanation at: <a href="http://youtu.be/s6iShJrc56E">http://youtu.be/s6iShJrc56E</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 June 2014 10:55, Paul Gallaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@gallaway.ca" target="_blank">paul@gallaway.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">To test if it's the splitter, remove it, and use a female-to-female<br>
F-connector adapter to connect your TV directly to your cable line in.<br>
If it's the splitter, the picture should be improved. If it's<br>
something else it shouldn't change anything. Something else could be<br>
your cable to your TV or any cable run upstream from there per Khalid.<br>
<br>
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You can get cheap cables at Sayal in Cambridge. A 3 ft cable is $3.49. Home<br>
> Depot has reasonable prices for the short ones ($4.99 for 3 ft) if that is a<br>
> closer drive for you. Avoid Best Buy and The Source. They are double the<br>
> price.<br>
<br>
Canada Computers isn't terrible for cables either if they are closer<br>
than Sayal. I don't get out of Waterloo enough ;) If you're updating<br>
cables you want to get the RG6 type coax, not the RG59 type. Memory is<br>
drawing a blank on the "why."<br>
<br>
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