What's With These Wires?
While the scene to right is a very common scene it may be new and alarming to folks looking for their first home.
What are all those wires? Why are they outside the electrical box? Why are they not connected to anything.
All questions I hear often when showing homes to first time home owners.
The answer:
The black wires are coax cable, used for either television or internet.
The blue wires are for internet connections.
These wires came from outlets in different rooms of the house and end here.
The reason they are not hooked up to anything is because you, the home owner need to choose both your television provider and your internet provider. Those providers will supply equipment that will determine what wires will be used along with your choices of what rooms you want "wired".
In some cases your television signal and internet providers will hook the wires up to their equipment for you, in other cases you may do it yourself or hire an electrician to do the job.
The picture above is in my own home. I have a television antena on the roof of my home and I hooked all the television (coax) cables to a powered hub to insure a strong signal in every room of my home. I have 3 desktop computers hooked up to wire and the rest are all wifi.
None of the coax (black) or internet (blue) wires carry voltage so do not be afraid of these wires, this is a reason they are NOT in the breaker (fuse) box.
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