Thread: RG6

My house was wired for cable to 3 rooms back in the late 80s when it was built, so I assume that's RG59. When I bought the house a few years ago, I had Dish installed and had another coax line run to the master bedroom for the TV2 feed, since I was already using the existing coax run to the bedroom for my HSI. I hope that when the installer made that run, he used RG6, as that would probably be my only RG6 coax going into my house. Stupid question time...how can I tell what kind of cable it is by visual inspection? I know little about RG6/RG59 except that I will need RG6 for the connection to the Hopper if/when I get it.

Most brands have it printed on the cable itself

Originally Posted by dare2be

My house was wired for cable to 3 rooms back in the late 80s when it was built, so I assume that's RG59. When I bought the house a few years ago, I had Dish installed and had another coax line run to the master bedroom for the TV2 feed, since I was already using the existing coax run to the bedroom for my HSI. I hope that when the installer made that run, he used RG6, as that would probably be my only RG6 coax going into my house. Stupid question time...how can I tell what kind of cable it is by visual inspection? I know little about RG6/RG59 except that I will need RG6 for the connection to the Hopper if/when I get it.

The easiest way to tell is to look at the cable. Right off the bat you can tell that RG59 cable is skinnier than RG6.

Center conductor on 59 is thinner and you can bend it over with your finger tip rather easily, whereas with rg6 you cannot.

Originally Posted by dare2be

My house was wired for cable to 3 rooms back in the late 80s when it was built, so I assume that's RG59. When I bought the house a few years ago, I had Dish installed and had another coax line run to the master bedroom for the TV2 feed, since I was already using the existing coax run to the bedroom for my HSI. I hope that when the installer made that run, he used RG6, as that would probably be my only RG6 coax going into my house. Stupid question time...how can I tell what kind of cable it is by visual inspection? I know little about RG6/RG59 except that I will need RG6 for the connection to the Hopper if/when I get it.

The only stupid question is the one you don't ask.

Came home for lunch, took a quick peek at the cable...while most of it was painted over, I did make out "3 GHz", so I believe I'm good to go there. I won't mind having the Hopper in the master bedroom as opposed to the living room where my receiver is now.

Originally Posted by dare2be

Came home for lunch, took a quick peek at the cable...while most of it was painted over, I did make out "3 GHz", so I believe I'm good to go there. I won't mind having the Hopper in the master bedroom as opposed to the living room where my receiver is now.

Only issue some folks will have with a Hopper rather than a Joey in the master bedroom is the noise of the harddrive. Dish will be doing downloads all night long.

Originally Posted by rdinkel

Only issue some folks will have with a Hopper rather than a Joey in the master bedroom is the noise of the harddrive. Dish will be doing downloads all night long.

I think the fan would be louder than the harddrive, but I get your point.

As long as the sound isn't a vibration noise coming from the fan or the chassis, a little white noise wouldn't hurt.

The fan is very quiet in the 922.