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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Does Cable internet require a special grade of cable?
I'd like to jack my internet connection through a surge protector. I've already had lightning fry my connection and phone line once, but do you need a higher grade internet cable, or does the shit that you can get at Wal-Mart suffice without signal issues?
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Unnecessarily awesome
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A cable is a cable as far as I am concerned, so anything is fine.
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Any coax should do, but make sure that you have a powerful enough splitter. It has to be at least 1Ghz to keep a good signal for your TVs and your internet connections.
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Mad
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And get a good power board, even a small UPS or something.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Yeah, but if you're splitting that between more than two TVs (through more than one splitter) with low splitters you're going to start to notice the TV getting fuzzy. Usually the techs are either too stupid or too lazy to do it properly.
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Ron Paul 4 EVA
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Yeah, I'm not really splitting per say, it's all off the box outside. But I did have to deal with them over that before, so I know what to look out for there. I just thought one of the techs had said something about a higher grade cable for signal, but when I called Adelphia the fucker couldn't tell me anything definitive. SHOCK.
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