TV cable help

[securespark]

I'm in the process of moving the TV in our lounge and I have run both a Cat 6 (it was cheaper) and some co-ax to the new TV position.

My middle lad, who works in IT is all for the convenience of WiFi.

I keep telling him wired is much more reliable.

He calls me a boomer. Even though I'm not.
And Mrs S isn't, either, even though she is a year older than me.
It's just his friendly way of calling his parents old fashioned!

 

[Lucid]

Same applies to wi-fi.

Not really, no.

You don't Sellotape two bits of Wi-Fi together. You don't run Wi-Fi under the carpet at a door threshold. You don't staple Wi-Fi to the skirting board, crushing it in the process. You don't twist the braid and core of Wi-Fi together and stuff it into a plug. You don't fold up excess Wi-Fi behind the TV. I've seen all of this and more on jobs.

Never has a coax cable user lost signal because neighbours in flats above, below, and to the sides have coax cables too. Never has a user lost coax signal when running the microwave. Coax cable users don't lose signal after fitting baby cams/door cams. Has anyone ever had the password stolen for their coax cable, or worried that their coax cable has a backdoor hack? No one is troubled by slow coax cable signals because lots of devices are connected. When was the last time you TV signal over coax suffered buffering?

There are no dead spots in a house for coax cable.

My earlier post started by saying your mileage may be different. That's an acknowledgement that everyone's circumstances are unique to them. If Wi-Fi has always worked 100% reliably for you then great. I am pleased for you. However, that's not everyone's experience.

In business, I field far more Wi-Fi queries than I do coax queries. If a customer wants reliable Wi-Fi over a large area, they install a mesh network. The signal for those Wi-Fi mesh units is carried by cable. Its not coax, but it is cable, nonetheless.

Cable just works.

I use Wi-Fi at home. Of course I do. It's convenient, and now fast, and generally reliable, plus there's a whole host of devices for which Wi-Fi is the most practical connection. But if there's the opportunity to run Ethernet to something, then I do that because its bulletproof.

 

[Rodders53]

WiFi works fine for me too. Because I've wired from my router to a switch then to some WiFi mesh units to get coverage, plus I'm in a detached house with relatively few neighbours nearby to cause interference / congestion of the limited frequencies (but still needed a mesh for a plethora of wifi only devices to work semi-reliably).

A room UHF TV aerial works for me (only in an upstairs bedroom as it happens) but that doesn't mean it's the correct thing to use for everyone, everywhere!

 

[stuartb3502]

Plug one of them at a time into a TV to see which you need. The other is most likely either a satellite feed or for an FM/DAB aerial.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

My earlier post started by saying your mileage may be different. That's an acknowledgement that everyone's circumstances are unique to them. If Wi-Fi has always worked 100% reliably for you then great. I am pleased for you. However, that's not everyone's experience.

Spot on. I was an early adopter of wifi, so not many locally competing for bandwidth. Over the years, more and more Acccess Points appeared, all competing for bandwidth, so my connectivity suffered. I began with one loft mounted AP, and to give reliable coverage, that increased over the years to three, connected via wired. For items which never moved, I ran LAN cables.

However, a later, higher spec. router wifi AP recently installed, made one of the three AP's unnecessary, so it was decommissioned.

 

[RepairingDave]

The 2 satellite cables (164702) are for a box with 2 tuners so that you can watch one channel and record another (or record 2 different channels).