On January 30, 2006 at 05:34, Daniel Tonks said...
Is the signal coming in the house (before any
splitters or amplifiers) at an acceptable level,
according to Comcast's techs? And I don't just
mean "it works with the cable box", as the box
would probably work at a signal strength that
should not considered acceptable as an incoming
feed level.
Im not sure what the acceptable signal would be coming in, but it is above what the cable box is required to have. Do they allow for signal loss so that they can have multiple recievers split from a non amplified splitter? This is the issue I face, does the cable company take into consideration that the feed will be split and should or shouldnt be amp'd in their eyes? Is what the box requires coming in from the street acceptable or should there be an allowance for a loss?
I had an issue with signal strength at my house,
but in this case the problem was almost entirely
caused by a low level feed coming off the street
- and it kept getting weaker as the months went
by.
In the end a friend who works at the cable company
solved my problem by putting in a higher strength
tap, replacing the long length of RG6QS coming
off the street with RG11, and installing a high
quality amplifiier inside on the line that goes
to the digital box. The signal after the amp is
too hot for the Channel Plus no-loss splitter
that feeds all my analog sets, so they're split
off in advance (and the box can't go through the
splitter since I had earlier purchased the non-bidirectional
model).
Everything's now perfect - a happy digital box
and cable modem, and crystal clear analog.
