House Doesn't Have Cable Outlets Installed

[bboyhurricane]

When my parents build our house in 1999, there was no cable outlets installed, is it because new houses don't come with preinstalled cable outlets? Is there any self-installation that I can do to wire my house up with cable outlets. Or is cable only installed if I purchase a service that requires cable?

[tommy-b-10]

When my parents build our house in 1999, there was no cable outlets installed, is it because new houses don't come with preinstalled cable outlets? Is there any self-installation that I can do to wire my house up with cable outlets. Or is cable only installed if I purchase a service that requires cable?

 

What type of cable outlets are we talking about? Internet coaxial cable? or Ethernet. If its coaxial for your internet modem, they will generally install if for you when you purchase a service from a provider, but they only do one because that's all you need.

 

If you are talking about Ethernet, then you can either install it yourself (depending on where you live and if you are capable), or you can pay an electrician to install them throughout the house. It is up to the builder of a new house to decide whether or not they want Ethernet jacks installed.

[bboyhurricane]

What type of cable outlets are we talking about? Internet coaxial cable? or Ethernet. If its coaxial for your internet modem, they will generally install if for you when you purchase a service from a provider, but they only do one because that's all you need.

 

If you are talking about Ethernet, then you can either install it yourself (depending on where you live and if you are capable), or you can pay an electrician to install them throughout the house. It is up to the builder of a new house to decide whether or not they want Ethernet jacks installed.

Thank you for clarification. I'm talking about coaxial cable because I want to purchase cable internet. Just wondering, when they do install coaxial cable in my house, will there be any electrical box added outside? 

[boarder2k7]

They'll add a junction box outside where your services come in. They will them "install" a wire into the location of your choice inside the house. While it varies from company to company, most seem to prefer the "stab a drill bit through whatever then stick a wire in the hole" method.

Make sure you watch the installer and have it installed the way you want it, not the quick fast and dirty standard method. Oh and make sure that the hole into the house gets sealed with caulking of some sort.

[Charger]

They'll add a junction box outside where your services come in. They will them "install" a wire into the location of your choice inside the house. While it varies from company to company, most seem to prefer the "stab a drill bit through whatever then stick a wire in the hole" method.

Make sure you watch the installer and have it installed the way you want it, not the quick fast and dirty standard method. Oh and make sure that the hole into the house gets sealed with caulking of some sort.

around here they will no longer run wires in attics and will only run wires around the outside of houses in the most ugly ways posible.

[bboyhurricane]

Alright, Thanks for the help guys. Helped cleared up alot.

[boarder2k7]

around here they will no longer run wires in attics and will only run wires around the outside of houses in the most ugly ways posible.

Its absolutely terrible.

When I moved in there was a wire strung along the bottom of a shingle line for about 30' which then went up the side of the house (right next to the front door) and stabbed through a bedroom wall at knee height.

As we've remodeled the rooms have gotten satellite spec coax and dual Cat 5e cables in the walls.

[Charger]

Its absolutely terrible.

When I moved in there was a wire strung along the bottom of a shingle line for about 30' which then went up the side of the house (right next to the front door) and stabbed through a bedroom wall at knee height.

As we've remodeled the rooms have gotten satellite spec coax and dual Cat 5e cables in the walls.

I recently moved in with my brother and noticed that someone at somepoint decided it was a good idea to move where the tv is in the main living area. So the wire comes out of the wall down and under the base board of that wall up around a door then back under the baseboard on the next wall and the next wall and half way down the next wall lol. At some point I will probaby try and do something about that.