I recently had to do a side job in Muttontown ($$$$$$) to install 2 MoCA adapters in a house of a long-time customer. They have underground utilities, and I was surprised to see that Cablevision had supplied them with two drops coming up from the ground (which made my MoCA install a bit more complicated, since the location of each adapter would be on the opposite drop if I didn't swap cables around).
Anyway -- trying to figure out what type of cable it was that CV ran to the house.. It was very thick, and I am assuming that would be RG-6 Flooded or RG-6QDB for direct-burial. Is this correct?
Anyway, I didn't take pictures (I should have). One drop came up on the side of the house, through the grounding block and attached to a 2-way splitter outside of the house (one leg went to cable modem, one went to basement cable box). The other drop went through the grounding block and attached to a 3-way splitter right next to the first one..
Anyway, for the two MoCA adapters, I was able to swap cables from one of the splitters to the other, so that my MoCA adapters were on the same drop - and on the input side of the two-way splitter, I installed my PoE MoCA filter. I just never had seen that type of cabling before, let alone, two drops to the house. Is this common?
Rick
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