Hi all,
I was getting cable hooked up at a new house, all new wiring with RG6, new wire run to the pedestal, and the cable tech told me that he is measuring ingress and it is failing on every single cable in the house. I saw the house while it was being built, and it was attached with plastic cable straps, no hard turns, etc... appeared fine to me. The cable tech cut the ends off all the wires and put new ones on (and changed a few wall plates as well), retested, and had the same results. He's claiming that the wiring used in the house was likely defective as its supposedly every single wire in the house, and changing ends did not fix it. He was still able to hook up service and it seems to work fine, but he told me it needs to get corrected and will cause issues down the road.
He showed me on his device that it says:
ingress scan FAIL Tap 5.500 MHz -29.6 dBmV
on another room, same except -41.8 dBmV
another -26.3 dBmV
Looking online it seems like new RG6 wire being defecting is unheard of, no? I'm also not quite sure how the ingress test works, perhaps someone can explain how it should be done within a home, as I feel like he might have done it wrong?
Many outlets in the house have nothing plugged into them, can that cause them to fail the ingress test? Is an empty wall plate a source of ingress?
Is there other possible causes?
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