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Pulled a 20 year old coax line out of a house in Akron last week
It was the original install from when the place was built, still had the old twist on connectors and that stiff black jacket. Last month I was in a new build running fiber through a pre made chase, took maybe 20 minutes. Three years ago I was crawling through an attic in July to fish a line, sweating buckets. Now half the jobs are just swapping a modem. Anyone else feel like the actual cable part of the job is getting rare?
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kai_bennett1mo ago
Honestly it's wild, the job is basically just being a modem delivery guy now. I pulled some ancient cable last year that looked like it was installed with a hammer. Feels like a lost art sometimes.
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olivers2814d agoMost Upvoted
Haha yeah that hammer install sounds about right. I remember trying to fish some old coax out of a wall in my own house a few years back and it was literally tied to a floor joist with a shoelace. No joke. The older stuff is definitely a different beast, but I think most new builds are just trying to get the job done as fast as possible now. Feels like we traded actual craftsmanship for just getting a signal out the door.
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johnson.jade1mo ago
Nah, I get what you mean @kai_bennett but I still run into some real puzzle boxes in old buildings. Last month I had to trace a fault through three floors of a hotel built in the 60s, nothing but original cloth-wrapped wire. That stuff definitely keeps you on your toes, doesn't it?
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