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Whether for an existing or a new home, once the cable is in the wall, it's difficult and expensive to replace. Choosing the wrong cable can limit your choices of communication and entertainment services



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What Kind of Cable Should I Wire My Home With?
What Kind of Cable Should I Wire My Home With?
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It's important to make the right choices when cabling your home to take advantage of all the advanced services that are available now or will be soon

Get Cable Signals to a TV Without Running Cables
Cable Signals
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You don't have to place a TV near the cable outlet. Learn how wireless products can beam cable TV signals plus your VCR to anywhere in your house.

What Kind of Cable Should I Wire My Home With?
What Kind of Cable Should I Wire My Home With?
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Learn about cabling and jacks for your home. Be prepared for the lastest entertainment and communication services coming soon or available now.

How to Wire Your Home for Automation (Part 1)
How to Wire Your Home for Automation (Part 1)
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Building a new home or remodeling? One of the most common questions our tech support department receives is how to cable a home for automation.

How to Wire Your Home for Automation (Part2)
Wiring Your Home for Automation (Part2)
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Learn how to select and run cable for your new home or remodeling project. Distribution hubs and room terminating wall jacks are also discussed.

Guide to Cable Types
Guide to Cable Types
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When building a new home or doing extensive remodeling, it is critical to get the right kind of cable installed the first time. Rewiring later is far more difficult and costly.

Designing Your Own Distribution System
Designing Your Own Distribution System
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You can design your own video distribution system frm scratch. Learn how signal losses, splitters, and amplifiers all go together to make the system work.

Moving a Wall Switch
Moving a Wall Switch
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Sometimes a piece of furniture may block access to a wall switch. You don't need to call out an electrician and bear the high expense of relocating a wall switch.

What�s the Deal on All the Different Types of Cable Used in my Home?
What�s the Deal on All the Different Types of Cable Used in
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Learn some of the differences between cables installed in new homes today and what was done 30 years ago.

How to Move a Light Switch
How to Move a Light Switch
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Do you have a wall switch in an inconvenient place or blocked by furniture? Learn how you can move that switch in just a few minutes and without hiring an electrician!

How to Hook-up Multiple Satellite Receivers
How to Hook-up Multiple Satellite Receivers
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Learn how it takes more than an ordinary cable splitter to connect more than two receivers to a single rooftop satellite dish.

Increase Your Modem's Connection Speed
Increase Your Modem's Connection Speed
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Upgrading the home's telephone cable can make a noticeable improvement in the data transfer rate between the modem and the Internet.

Cabling for a Security System
Cabling for a Security System
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If you have the opportunity to install a hardwired alarm system, check out this FAQ on which kinds of cable to install for all the different components.

Whole-House Video Distribution Cabling
Whole-House Video Distribution Cabling
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With the whole-house video distribution system, every TV in your home will be able to view cable, antenna, or satellite channels as well as any video camera, VCR, and DVD player in the house, by simply changing channels.

Infrared Signals Over Coax
Infrared Signals Over Coax
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Learn how to use your video distribution system to send infrared remote control signals over the coax to control devices in other rooms.



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