50M : Is this a typical cabinet?

[horseman]

Originally Posted by jb66

Attenuation is attenuation, does it matter?

Not if you choose to ignore any opportunities for noise ingress, microreflections, tilt/slope, equalisation, group delay, laser clipping….

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by kwikbreaks

I'd see the big deal as probably having large numbers of dead and unterminated coax runs because with a mess like that it's obvious that VM haven't documented what goes where so won't be disconnecting dead runs. An unterminated run of coax could introduce noise. It will also introduce standing waves but I've no idea if that is of any importance on cable TV + BB - in analogue days it would have caused some ghosting.

OK, that's true - *if* they're not documenting properly. The simple fact that you've got a few splitters in series isn't an issue though, since the cable already goes through several splitters in series before reaching the cab. Not using those splitters properly is of course another matter...