plooger

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is this a 2-unit building? Seems like the incoming cable service line is already split somewhere upstream (to the left) of the picture scope ... with one line running up to the "PoE" MoCA filter and ground block, and the other line connecting to the input port of the passive 8-way splitter at the bottom of the picture. (FWIW, a non-MoCA CommScope SV8G)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What splitter would work?

For what purpose? For how many locations?

Assuming the one working room is a cable modem location, how many other rooms are you looking to get connected, and for what purpose ... cable TV boxes? ... MoCA?

Assuming you're trying to use MoCA, you'd want to use a MoCA-optimized splitter series like that recommended by TomRILReddit, the Antronix MMC1000-B line. Typically, a cascaded splitter setup is used, with a 2-way splitter feeding the modem location and a secondary splitter sized to service the rest of the locations.

You may want to upgrade the pictured "PoE" MoCA filter to a 70 dB model, as well. (Preferably, the "PoE" MoCA filter would be installed on the input port of the top-level splitter, with the filter connected via a short coax line to the ground block.)

These connections would ideally be made inside a protective cable junction box. At a minimum, you'll want to use weather boots for the coax joints.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only 2 of the coax jacks inside linked up with a cable outside. The other 5 showed no signal after trying every possible combination.

One thing to check is that the in-room coax outlets are actually connected to a coax cable behind the wallplate. (It happens.)

Then, you could try re-terminating the coax lines, starting with the outside connectors. (example coax compression kit)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Top component seems a patch panel. What I don’t get is why a patch panel if they don’t have Ethernet/Cat5+ cabling.

since my home isn’t wired with RJ45

Seems like the patch panel & jumpers are just for extending in-room patch cables, to make it look cleaner. I suppose it might improve portability, with the patch panel effectively documenting where the device patch cables need to be connecting. (I’m assuming RJ45 coupler keystones.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Go check each end of the two cables to see how the wires are terminated, and use that to reverse engineer how they need to be connected at this coupler(?).

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