Reddit mentions of Generic RG59 RG6 RG11 Cable F-Connector Compression Tool / Blue and Black Plastic and Steel Adjustable Compression Tool-Hardened Steel Construction With Black Oxide Finished

Cable Technician Here: Make sure that when pre-wiring a house, you consider WHERE the equipment is going and WHAT equipment is going where.

Cable Television will for the forseeable future always require dedicated lines, installing a home director's panel is highly advisable.

Also, When choosing coaxial cable, I'll go ahead and tell you some of the best stuff to go with is either Perfect-Flex or Commscope Coaxial cable.

This Stuff Here Is awesome, because it has good shielding, AND it's cross compatible with Satellite and Cable Television. The big thing you're looking for is it's capable of doing 3Ghz frequencies. Cable televsion only uses 5-860Mhz as a standard right now, but Satellite uses freq. as high as 2.85Ghz.

Alongside the equipment itself, you're going to want the proper end connectors, for that, leave that to TWC. Essentially after you run the wiring TWC will do ALL the connectorization for you. If you do want to do it yourself...

You'll Need a Compression Tool, a Cable Prep Tool and Fittings.

Splitting, you want to do the Home run for this reason. All footage matters greatly, its easiest to get the best splitting, and most equal distrobution through your house by using a smart panel. Preferably located as close to the Electrial Meter (because your Feed line must be close to power for grounding) as possible.

Aside from that, I'd be glad to help if you wanted to drop a pm to me sometime, I can assist with all aspects of your setup. I just enjoy doing cable work, and would love to help.

that's a pretty legit list right there. I have a trunk full of gear, probably worth almost as much as my car. I do a lot of contract work, so my list is pretty much the same just slightly beefed up.

• I have a basic tech kit from Amazon
  
• I have a buttset Sometimes reffered to as a linemans set.
  
• About 10 of these Floating around my car/trunk/tool bags and person. because i like to lose things lol
  
• A Basic cable tester
  
• This Cable mapper
  
• Coax crimper (For tv, and bnc)
  
• Crimp Kit
  
• I buy these Like candy, they're perfect for ISO's for giving to customers with instructions and/or iso's just perfect in general for a lot of things.
  
• Stinger Flash light Serves double duty as a i'm a volunteer first and second responder
  
• Cable stripper
  
  Replenishables
  
  
• I Keep at least 50 of these on hand
  
• rg59 tips (CCTV BNC Tips)
  
• RG6 tips (Cable TV)
  
• RJ45 tips (A mason jar filled with about 60-100)
  
• at minimum of box of cat5 Sometimes up to three boxes. i will have a job soon that will require six of them lol.
  
• Patch Cables 3f and 5ft usually at minimum 10 of each
  
• zip ties (Usually three containers of 500 of assorted sizes)
  
• White 2 4 and 6 port keystone faceplates
  
• White keystone blanks
  
• low voltage mounting brackets
  
• white 1 and 2 port surface mount boxes
  
• some hdmi cables (Usually just 4 or 5 of these)
  
• electrical tape (5 50' rolls of different color) for many things
  
• Pull string
  
• dikes (Not really but they dissappear so fast they feel like it) like These
  
• I actually keep two label makers
  
• Rolls of 8 inch velcro ties
  
  contractor things
  
  
• Step bits
  
• Paddle bits
  
• Hole Saw Kit
  
• Masonry bits
  
• Caulk gun
  
• caulk
  
• grommets
  
• Ladder
  
• First aid kit
  
• 150' Fish tape
  
• An 18V Cordless DeWalt Hammer Drill
  
• Regular drill bits
  
  
  
• I use these to organize my laptop bag (win surface pro with usb to rj45 adapter, usb to db9 adapter, console cable, lan cable, wifi hotspot, anker battery pack, 500gb usb hard drive etc)
  
• I use these bags to organize everything
  
  and a myriad of other small parts pertaining to surveillance system installs, and screw bits for my drill, and i even have secured walkies for when i have multiple employees on site. plus i have to admit bluetooth headsets for when i have to deal with helpdesks or tech support while i'm on site... did i mention i do a lottttt of contract work. i'm all over the place. every now and then i run into things that this kit can't handle but for the most part i come away with a rather professional look.
  
  sorry for formatting, i've seen plenty of these posts this is the first time i took time to actually look up evrything i've purchased.
  
  Edit: Some formatting. added velcro :P

I've been burned before shopping from the US (my mistake, I should have said where I was).

By the time items get to the uk I have ended up paying double or triple the items true value.

I've had a look around, only thing I can find that looks half way decent is this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B007NE8AIA

Is there anything in particular that sets the pro linear apart from other tools?
Thanks