[mythtvnz] High quality cables

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz> wrote:
> I'd just keep the lengths as short as possible. Given the local climate,
> I expect the backend will survive just fine in the roofspace.
>
> You will need one of these to get the best out of your system...
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/09/perfect_your_mp3_listening_pleasure_with_this_bonkers_ethernet_cable/

Just had a conversation about similar matters yesterday:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=218052

>
>
> On Fri, 2015-02-13 at 13:55 +1300, Don Robertson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Firstly, I found a post in my drafts folder about Kodi - I've given it a go
>> running from a usb stick and it is very cool. Thanks for suggesting it whoever
>> it was all that time ago. I am sticking with Myth for my front end - I like
>> Kodi's Youtube browser but - surprising for a Linux user -  find it does not
>> give me enough control over recording schedules.
>>
>> Second, I am not a great believer in spending lots of money on high quality
>> cables - and I don't think wifi and emf signals are gong to kill me. Just ruin
>> my spelling.
>>
>> But. I am moving my Mythbackend machine and my Silicon Dust HD Tuner to
>> another room. I was using an approx 10m cable to connect the Tuner to the
>> arial wall socket. I am now trying to run the same cable through the roof
>> space to the SD Tuner box. But when I do this, I am getting low signal
>> strengths and cannot lock onto some channels.
>>
>> I have tried running it as far from electrical cables as I can - without much
>> (if any) improvement.
>>
>> If I run a network cable to the AD Tuner and use the short antenna cable that
>> came with the Silicon Dust tuner, it is fine.
>>
>> I also notice the Silicon Dust cable is fat, the antenna cables in the roof
>> space and the 10m cable are not as fat as this, but fatter than some other
>> antenna patch cables I have lying around.
>>
>> So - would the electrical cabling affect the antenna cable? Is the stuff used to
>> wire up the house of different quality to the stuff used to make the patch
>> cables? And is there any terminology I need to use when trying to find good
>> quality antenna cable? The stuff I have seen does not look all that fat - but
>> as I am always telling my wife, size isn't everything.
>>
>> I am just wanting to make sure all this stuff works before I go putting in wall
>> sockets and feeding network cable to the front end and so forth.
>>
>> So any help appreciated. At the moment I have cable all over the floor, and
>> I'll have to do something about it fairly soon.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Don
>>
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