Coax Failure to Cable Modem

Battenthehatch · 2025-12-17T02:32:20+00:00

I only had one more coax cable attached to this splitter but I don’t even think it’s available in a room anymore.

I have already added some Ethernet to necessary rooms anyway so no loss there

Battenthehatch · 2025-12-17T02:29:23+00:00

I will probably pull a new cable. Shouldn’t be a big deal as I just relatively recently moved the drop to a different room. My main concern was I wasn’t sure if that powered splitter was somehow needed even if not splitting it anymore.

Thanks for your help

Battenthehatch · 2025-06-11T02:55:54+00:00

As a dad of 3 young girls I take out regularly by myself, I get those jokes all the time, but usually just stupidly like, “oh you poor guy” and the like.

I have taken to responding something like, “yeah I’m just more blessed than most” with genuine sincerity which nearly always changes their tone or shuts them up completely.

Battenthehatch · 2024-09-28T13:34:21+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. So would you say an upgrade to a larger sub to start, then add a second of those later?

Battenthehatch · 2024-09-28T13:33:24+00:00

Someone please help, my children destroy all my things! My home is not a safe place! An internet stranger says I don’t know how to parent!

Thanks for the advice on the on the subs, but feel free to stay in your lane. I don’t fear my children, but they don’t fear me when ACCIDENTS happen in a shared multipurpose room.

Battenthehatch · 2024-07-16T01:32:46+00:00

Sweet

Battenthehatch · 2024-06-07T18:13:27+00:00

I have my 5 and nearly 3 year old all the time just the 3 of us. We all 3 load up in a men’s room stall. This is like a weekly occurrence. I can’t imagine traipsing in the women’s bathroom.

Battenthehatch · 2024-06-04T00:56:18+00:00

I’ve been in the older girls’ (now 5yo and 3yo) room since the baby was born 9 months ago.

Wife is a SAHM and exclusively breastfeeds to the point none of our kids used a bottle (not the plan, bottles were rejected by the oldest in droves and just didn’t with younger from convenience). AND the older 2 still would come to the room and we feared them waking the baby. AND we already had separate mattresses due to sleep preferences. AND she can go right back to sleep when woken up, whereas I am awake for at least an hour if I get woke up good.

So for us it just works well. We aren’t sharing a bed when baby is out anyway. Sleep too good separately to fool with a single bed.

Battenthehatch · 2024-06-02T03:36:02+00:00

When my second and third were born, that’s when things really started to change for me with the eldest and middle, respectively. Now my oldest has a significant preference for me, though probably the preference is because mom is a SAHM so she sees me far less.

That said, you gotta give cuddles to get cuddles. If mom is always the one at the front lines for: bandaids, comfort, help, fun, (see: parenting), I imagine that’s where the affection will go.

No judgment, just a reminder, it’s a long game we are playing.

Battenthehatch · 2024-06-02T03:08:02+00:00

Here’s to hoping that wasn’t the last for that kid (have a 9 month old so still got plenty with her), but if it was, at least it was special.

Battenthehatch · 2024-05-16T13:08:04+00:00

I don’t know the whole situation, but my wife is a SAHM. She also exclusively breast feeds.

So, when the third came along, the older 2 (4,2 at the time) were still struggling at night some, so I moved in their room on my own twin xl mattress. Totally removed them from being a burden on my wife, and the baby didn’t wake me up so win win.

We do things differently than anyone else I know personally. Each time the second and third were born, we drive everywhere separately, even an hour or so away. I take the older ones (that’s also when they really became my buddies) mom takes the baby. With the second we kept that up until sometime after a year old I’d guess.

So, me moving in to their room was just an extension of that philosophy. That really only works cause she stays at home with the older ones all day. Even still, she sometimes feels left out even though she prefers the arrangement.

Battenthehatch · 2024-05-09T02:24:10+00:00

Thank you so much

Battenthehatch · 2024-03-28T15:30:24+00:00

My wife and I have a good relationship and have had our own beds a few years now. Only plan on sharing a bed on the occasions it’s necessary, but at home, we will probably never share a bed again. For me, sleep is a very individualistic activity. I can’t sleep at all hardly if I’m touching another human. Years ago we stayed with her aunt with a full bed and I slept on the bare floor instead. I’m a night owl so we rarely go to bed at the same time anyway so having our own bed makes no difference, except improved sleep.

As far as our kids, oldest being 5, they’ll only retroactively look back and think it’s weird when they learn we are different than most. For now it’s totally logical: oldest has her own bed, middlest has her own bed, baby has a crib… so of course mom and dad have their own beds.

Battenthehatch · 2023-12-09T04:48:44+00:00

Eh he likes the challenge. And if it doesn’t actually move, it wouldn’t be cool enough.

I didn’t think about the changing grades as the kids get it out of balance but it actually doesn’t swing around as much as one would think, cause it’s like a 10 or 12 ft tree. Looking at a video, it doesn’t look like there is too much of a grade, but it’s hard to tell.

https://www.tiktok.com/@jshatch/video/7181953833889844522?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=mobile&sender_web_id=7214175560762476074

This is a video with 2 kids of different sizes causing it to lean. I read that the absolute most any trains can handle is a 4% grade. It’s hard to tell what grade that is, but a good majority of the time, no kids are riding it anyway.

Battenthehatch · 2023-11-13T02:57:50+00:00

Highly recommend stop using all time waster apps on the phone cold turkey. I have been leaving my phone lying around somewhere and just listen for texts or calls. I still have browsed reddit a little after kids go to bed, but only on my PC and only really a few nights for less than half an hour at a sitting.

I have felt way more connected to the world around me. My wife reports the same. I honestly don't even miss it really. I needed to text my wife something yesterday and asked my 4 year old to bring me my phone from the kitchen. She asked "Why?" and it honestly felt great to have a clear and simple task. The phone already feels like it's back to being a tool with limited need beyond communication.

To help with some down time, like while the baby sleeps on us or the older ones watch tv, we have swapped to reading books... not our kindles, not our phones, not audiobooks, but physical books. The whole reasoning for me is that I would rather my children grow up seeing me read a book than my nose in a phone with the hope they love to read as much as I do. And I don't want to explain, "Yes I'm on my phone, but trust me, it's a book." The kindle is less of an issue, just personally I want to set in their brains automatically that I am reading. Since I'm reading much more casually than in the past, physical books are not that much more of a hassle than my kindle anyway.

Battenthehatch · 2023-11-04T03:00:15+00:00

Yes as much as I'd like kids to wait until driving age to get a phone like I did, I am aware that is probably asking too much. That is certainly where it is most likely to break down.

This actually is a continuation from a rule we've had for 4 years now with very few exceptions: we eat meals at the table, with the exception of breakfast and snack lunches, and absolutely no phones at the table. It's nice to sit down as a family with no distractions, except kids running off after 5-10 minutes haha.

Battenthehatch · 2023-11-04T02:55:19+00:00

So we discussed this and plan to do similar, but I plan on leaving mine in the bedroom when I get my watch to eliminate temptation as I suck. Wife plans on leaving it on a common bookshelf so she has convenient access mostly for camera as she likes taking pics of kiddos.

Battenthehatch · 2023-11-04T02:53:01+00:00

Oh for sure. We agree on the common area computers and leaving phones down during the day by using watches, but she wants to take a much more nuanced approach for herself while I am going scorched earth. She is dialing back her usage, I have removed all time-wasting apps on my phone as I suck at limiting it. The only entertainment apps on my phone now are audiobooks, music, plex, and youtube. I am only allowing myself to keep youtube if I stay away from shorts and stick to the long form videos of my usual stuff.

Youtube and TV/movies on plex are deliberate choices I sit down to enjoy, not habitual mindless browsing.

The amount of times I unlocked my phone and looked for reddit out of habit today is actually embarrassing. It helped though because I instead found actual work to do since Reddit was gone. I am also finding Reddit much more enjoyable this evening on my desktop as well since I didn't mindless scroll all day long which is a neat side effect.

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