First order of business: Get the TV working. Easy enough, just plug it into the cable drop. Oops, not working. Okay, let's try another cable drop to make sure that we're at least getting cable. That worked. So the cable drop we want to use is not working. Let's go to the basement and see what we can figure out. I don't have a picture of the original state of the cable, but it was ugly. Especially since, after cleaning it up a little, it's still pretty ugly.
There was an incoming cable that was not working at all, but had been used to try to wire up some of the cable drops. Since there were so many splitters going so many places, it was hard to tell what the original intentions were, but it was obvious that about 7 different people had tried to wire the place, each time pretty much neglecting what the previous person had done.
After a bunch of cable-tracking and and tugging and testing, I was able to get a good handle on things. Turns out a number of the drops in the unit are not functional. Which is fine, since we only own 1 TV. I have no intention of getting 6 more TVs to use all of the drops.
Here's a picture after the clean-up.
And the current state of the drops (9/30/2012). No plans on changing anything.
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