On Monday, April 21, 2014 3:48:54 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:40:46 -0400, wrote:



On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 15:12:33 -0400, "Ralph Mowery"

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"Mark Lloyd" wrote in message

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I have digital TV and cable internet (15Mbps). The outdoor cable the

company installed in about 2001 may be QS (although I think it is not). I

installed all the indoor cable, NONE of which is QS. There's even a little

RG59 (very short runs). It all works fine.



Your cable company may use QS because it's what they have (they're using

it for outdoor runs too). That doesn't make it any better.





I doubt that QS is much if any beter than the foil with the braid over it.

Installing some of the rg59 (the type with just a braid and no foil) is not

a very good idea. It can do two things, let the cable signal out so that it

interfears with other services and lets other services interfear with your

cable signal.



At one house I lived in I was getting some complaints from a house about 200

feet away that I was causing problems with a HBO channel. I was using a

transmitter about 220 mhz and it was only 10 watts. It did not bother my

cable. The cable man came out and found the home owner had used some single

shielded cable and had to replace it.



foil and braid is what they installed. The installer called it QS

cable. I had just called it full-sheild previously.

I'll go look at the cable and see exactly what it says on it --- Some

if FT4 and some is FT6.The FT6 is QS

It's FT6 to the first splitter and to the cable modem. FT4 to the HD

cable box and the DVR

For what it's worth my daughter got only internet from time warner. But we put a splitter on it and she got a random selection of tv channels as well when we hooked a tv to it. Probably depends on the diligence of your installer to put the filters on the line. Which you can often just remove later anyway.