MadMANN
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 ·Comcast
| reply to Test Clees
Re: Wireing a home for cable
If these rentals are separate apartments and you are looking to follow the law, each unit would need to order their own service and have separate accounts. The only legal way around that would be to buy a bulk cable account for that building.
That being said, regardless of whether you buy a bulk account or have your tenants pay for their own accounts, your building should be wired as separate apartments with their own wiring.
The easiest way to do it would be to run one feed from the building's cable demarc to a location in each apartment and then run homeruns from the wall locations to where the feed is located in the apartment. It also wouldn't hurt to run a spare in case something happens to the original.
I would also arrange for the cable company to provide each apartment with its own drop, whether aerial or in an MDU on your building.
The biggest concern about using one cable line to feed the whole building is not actually the forward signal strength because that can easily be boosted by a house amp. However, the upstream signal is a lot less forgiving as far as it being split and it is not as easy to rectify with a normal house amp. If one of your tenants would want digital services that problem could come back to haunt you. |
