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Which is cheaper and has more attenuation than copper :rolleyes:

As for skin effect at the frequencies used not all the current will be going through the copper with a proportion going through the steel.. Not a great deal though compared with lower frequencies..

Anyone here got zapped by the skin effect on SHF high power cable ;)

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So why did you chose cable over ADSL or better still if available FTTC?

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What do you mean?

I have some of the lowest pings I have ever seen with my connection :/

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What about jitter?

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You get about 0.2dB attenuation per meter. The extra length of cable will not be important unless you are already very distant from the street cabinet you connect to.

OP - do you know the distance from the cab?

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Even if he is distant, it's VM's job to keep his levels in check not his.

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To be pedantic once more, the C in HFC is coax, not copper. I wouldn't call coax copper. I'd call it coax.

Anyway, @OP, it would really make very little difference either way. Having longer ethernet & shorter coax may make a tiny difference, but not so much that I'd go out of my way to make sure I had that setup.

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1 - 2 ms Jitter when pinging Australia on Pingtest :/

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The green cabinet is about 4 or 5 houses down on the corner.

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The length of cable coming into your house will have negligible effect on ping and jitter, what matters is the people sharing what's on the other end of the cable.

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No one else uses the connection.

Just me.

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That's not how cable works. All cable connections are merged with hundreds/thousands of others and your connection is shared by hundreds of users as well.

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I meant in my home >.<"

Of course others share it but in my home it's just me :)

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Apparently a hollow copper pipe would carry the same current as a solid copper wire. It's the cross sectional area that matters. The saving costs of using steel in the middle is immense. The current is very low so heating up is not a problem

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It depends on the frequency.. DC most of the solid copper wire is used and there is little skin effect, where as when you get beyond Ghz most of it is on the skin.

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In response to my post which specifically said

"the other end of the cable."