Rough day in El Paso when a customer told me my coax bends were 'kinky'

Got called out to a house in El Paso last Tuesday and the lady complained her internet kept dropping. She pointed at my cable run and said 'those bends look kinky, that ain't right.' I laughed it off but checked my work and she was spot on. I had 5 sharp 90 degree bends where I should've used 45s. Now I always sweep my bends wider on coax, saves me callbacks. Anyone else had a customer teach them something?

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lunashah7d ago

@avery_foster31 that reflex thing makes total sense, I read a similar post on a tech subreddit about it.

avery_foster317d ago

Did you read that study about how sharp bends in coax actually cause signal reflection? Apparently it messes with the impedance and makes the data packets bounce back. I heard it on some tech podcast last month.