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Originally Posted by damien c
I know this because I bought a Monster Power Center and it came with some cable's, with F's on the end and I tried them and they were dropping the level's on the box but as soon as I put the normal RG6 cable back on it the level were fine again and no longer, had any stuttering or issue's when watching film's or using the broadband.
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My understanding is that any change to the cable will change the signal levels (hence why VM installers come armed with attenuators etc.) However, surely the change in signal level is only a problem if it shifts outside the normal operating range? It's quite possible a sat cable with moulded F-plugs would do the job without affecting the signal level badly enough to ruin the service. Certainly I think we have had plenty of people on this forum over the years who have used it without any problems.
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Hence why I never tell people to do the cable extension's themselve's unless they can get hold of the RG6 and connector's, the cable is not that expensive I think it is about £50 for about 200m and the F's are about £10 for a pack of 50, the Cable Stripper Tool is about £20 and the Crimper is about £35, not to expensive really considering that will allow you to make potentially 25 cable's.
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Sorry, but that's really bad advice. Why would you recommend someone spend £115 buying kit to do a job a Virgin tech would do for, IIRC, about £90?
The OP doesn't need to do about 25 cables, he needs to do maybe 1 or 2.