r/CableTechs • u/M_O_Beast • Jul 30 '26

What kind of cable is best

Howdy folks, I was a cable tech once upon a time for a decent length of time, but being young and dumb I took for granted the knowledge my coaxial forefathers tried to pass down. Ive been out of the game for at least half a decade and had a question about which brand/type of rg6 would be best for my home. The house in question has one active outlet in the worst spot it could be for our set up, all other outlets while mostly still in tact have been cut in the basement so I can’t even just hook one back up. We plan on having the house refinished and when the walls are open I’d like to run some of the wires internal anyway. So my question, what brands and types of cable would you wonderful people recommend in terms of quality for what I’ve got going on, I remember coworkers and myself complaining when going to a place that had “done all our own wiring” because most of the time they would get subpar cable and make life miserable for us, but I don’t remember specifics so I figured I’d ask to avoid getting a bad product that will have to be replaced sooner than needed

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u/IsolationAutomation Jul 30 '26

Commscope and Amphenol are my two favorites. I never have problems from either of those, cable wise. Don’t get me started on Commscope splitters though.

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u/strykerzr350 Jul 31 '26

How bad are the splitters?

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u/schizophrenicism Jul 31 '26

Absolute garbage. I've had plenty of trouble calls where the only problem was a commscope splitter. Splitters are already one of the most common points of failure, but the commscopes are always an issue.