Looks pretty poor. If the 2nd cable from the splitter doesn’t go anywhere useful, you could just get rid of the splitter, and join the two ends with a straight-thru connector instead of that rusty old splitter. That and fixing the cable sound like good first steps to fixing your problem.

I was just at a gas station and saw that the clerk had arrived on an electric bicycle. That seemed like the beginning of the end for the petroleum industry.

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