Wade Lippman
07-17-2014, 2:03 PM
I have cable television/internet/telephone with Time Warner.
The cable comes in the house and goes to a grounded 2 way splitter.
One cable goes to the internet/telephone.
The second goes to an amplifier.
From the amp it goes to a 8 way splitter.
The previous home owner told me that the amplifier was temporary until TW improved the signal, but he never bothered to follow up on it.
I called TW and they told me my signal was as good as it was going to get.
I took the amp out and lost my digital signal. I have 5 televisions and the 4 analog were fine, but I lost the digital.
I disconnected the 3 cables that I wasn't using and put terminators on the open connectors.
The digital improved so i got about half the stations.
So, is there anything I can do, other than putting the amp back?
My first thought was to replace the 8 way with a 2 way and 4 way; putting the 4 way and the digital on the 2 way. I figured that might throw enough signal to the digital to work. But then I recalled they are planning on doing away with analog, so even if it worked it would only be temporary.
Second thought was to remove the first splitter and put the internet/telephone on the 8 way splitter. That should improve the television at the expense of the internet/telephone. It would be a fair amount of work to try that, so I wonder if any knows if it likely to improve my television enough without hurting my internet/television.
Would replacing the 8way with a 6way make enough difference to bother?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
The cable comes in the house and goes to a grounded 2 way splitter.
One cable goes to the internet/telephone.
The second goes to an amplifier.
From the amp it goes to a 8 way splitter.
The previous home owner told me that the amplifier was temporary until TW improved the signal, but he never bothered to follow up on it.
I called TW and they told me my signal was as good as it was going to get.
I took the amp out and lost my digital signal. I have 5 televisions and the 4 analog were fine, but I lost the digital.
I disconnected the 3 cables that I wasn't using and put terminators on the open connectors.
The digital improved so i got about half the stations.
So, is there anything I can do, other than putting the amp back?
My first thought was to replace the 8 way with a 2 way and 4 way; putting the 4 way and the digital on the 2 way. I figured that might throw enough signal to the digital to work. But then I recalled they are planning on doing away with analog, so even if it worked it would only be temporary.
Second thought was to remove the first splitter and put the internet/telephone on the 8 way splitter. That should improve the television at the expense of the internet/telephone. It would be a fair amount of work to try that, so I wonder if any knows if it likely to improve my television enough without hurting my internet/television.
Would replacing the 8way with a 6way make enough difference to bother?
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.