I am pre-wiring my vacation home down in San Felipe. Is there any big reason I should use quad shield over just regular 60% coax? I was looking at Monoprice coax but there COAX is all copper clad steel. I was told that is the cheapest and poorest quality coax cable to use.

I am looking at these COAX options. All Solid Copper center conductors but what is the purpose of the QUAD Shield?

[Link: cablegiant.com]

Any input is appreciated!

It depends on what you are using it for. Quad-shielded CSS is great for CATV and RF signals, but you don't want to use it for general video signals or satellite. For those, you want a solid copper center. In most instances, 60% shielding is fine. However, you probably won't know for sure until after the walls are up and it's really hard to change out.

CJ

Quad shield can be good for very long runs. But for the most part it's not NEEDED. I have a lot of fairly long runs in the house, and no noise problems using regular RG6.

Now from the cable drop from the street to the house - I actually have two, one RG6 and one RG11. Probably about a hundred feet for each. Both were tested when the RG11 run was installed - the signal loss was about the same at lower CATV channels, but about 3db better on the RG11 at high channels (125).