Hi all,

Was investigating some wifi issues at my folks' place today and they mentioned having some signal issues with their TV. Noticed that all the RF jacks throughout the house have flooding compound (I assume) oozing into them, making all the connectors sticky.

They have some unterminated coax hanging down in their structured wiring distribution cabinet as well, which has managed to leak a reasonably decent amount of gel all over their ethernet switch, RF amplifier, and more concerningly the power outlets at the bottom of the box.

These outlets are mounted on the horizontal plane so the gel could leak right into the socket - not sure if it has as the are currently populated, but if it hasn't already, unplugging either cord would likely result in some dripping into the socket.

I'm admittedly not a sparky or TV installer, but I haven't seen flooded coax used for internal-only runs before and thought it was only used for external or underground cabling. Is this normal, or a case of using the wrong cable?

Other than being a sticky mess and a pain, how much of a problem is this gel?