alexenderjohn 0 Report post Posted February 5, 2013 Coaxial Cables are very famous for home and offices which are immensely safe also. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yordan 10 Report post Posted February 5, 2013 Please avoid posting such obvious one-line posts.Everybody knows that home users should, if possible, use standard quality cables. And all standard cable are coaxial today, using the shield effect provided by the neutral external part of the cable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
iGuest 3 Report post Posted February 5, 2013 All standard cables are coaxial today. Explain this?The predominant area I know that coaxial (coax) cables are still being used is for antenna/satellite TV. It was widely used for networking too, but that was long replaced with unshielded twisted pair (UTP).Good quality coax cables had very poor bend radius. This was due to it's shielding that was a thin metal sheeting around the cable, bending it could lead to breaking the shield and allowing more interference. It was then replaced by foil, lowering the quality but increasing the bending radius. It was then made even poorer when it went with loosely twisted/weaved wire. Sometimes you could find a combination of both foil and loosely twisted/weaved wire.So to have good quality meant bad flexibility. To have marginal quality, highly susceptible to interference you had the foil and loose wire combination.Those are the only areas that I can think of that are still using coax in the home and office.Cheers,MC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
manuleka 0 Report post Posted February 7, 2013 good point MC... i don't use coaxial at home, although last time i've used one was when i had cable TV/Internet... now i'm back on the old DSL Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
