<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 6:42 PM, Jerome Yuzyk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerome@supernet.ab.ca" target="_blank">jerome@supernet.ab.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 08:07:45 PM Stephen Villano wrote:<br>
> I've always used hex compression connectors, they last quite a long<br>
> time before oxidation causes problems. I never retooled for the newer<br>
> compression type, never made sense for something I'd use every 5 - 10<br>
> years.<br>
<br>
</span>Now by "compression" you mean at the cable-in end of the connector right?<br>
Because every non-10-Base2 coax connector I've ever used had a threaded cap<br>
for the terminal end. I vaguely remember making a coax cable long ago by<br>
hand and that had a cable-in end that used a screw-on compression fitting<br>
and not a bit on metal crimped over the end of the cable. I just stopped in<br>
at a Home Depot to look at cables and splitters and all their cables look<br>
like they'd be screwed-on connectors, as are the cables I got from my ISP.<br>
<br>
How can one tell?<br>
<br>
Or... are you talking about new A/V gear that has connectors like the bad<br>
old 10Base-2 days? I think they were called "barrel" connectors, with a<br>
push-and-turn connection. Nice connection strategy, darkened by painful<br>
memories of dealing with 10Base-2.<br>
<br>
All the terminal posts on all my gear are threaded though: wall post,<br>
cablemodem, and PVR-500s.<br>
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