Donald E Haselwood wrote:
> Michael,
>
> If it is merely a tee and not a signal splitter, then there will be a mismatch
> to the coax.
The package said splitter, but I'm in the middle of a plumbing issue
right now, so that's the term that came to mind.
> As I picture your setup the cable comes into the wall
> connector. As some distance from the wall connector you inserted the tee.
>
Nope. I pulled the wall connector away from the wall and slipped the
splitter in there with a little 6" piece of coax to reconnect the wall
connector.
> With the wall connector open there will be reflections, which will "suck out"
> certain frequencies.
It is hooked to my TV in the living room.
> With it terminated there will still be a mismatch, but
> the effect won't be so bad. You could try one of those 75 ohm cable
> terminators.
I was actually thinking about this and racking my brain to try and
remember if I've got an open end somewhere. I think that they are all
used. There should only be three at the moment. Two TV's and the modem.
> Or, try a signal splitter instead of a tee.
I could swear the package said signal splitter, but it's been a while
and you know how they will use misnomers to sell products anymore...
> Or, if you don't
> need the old wall connection, cut the coax, put a connector on it and a
> female-female to connect to the coax going to your office.
>
See above.
> As Chuck said, it could be some big-time loss. Signal boosters are one-way,
> so upstream signals would be blocked;
That's really what I was afraid of, which is why I had not yet made that
jump.
> however, maybe they have some new
> versions that act as "repeaters" for this type of application.
>
It may be worth researching, right?
> Don, W4DH
>
>
>
> On Sunday 17 December 2006 12:57, michael hast wrote:
>
>> Okay. this question is not so much a Linux question as a
>> networking/modem question, but you guys are a bright bunch, and I know
>> that it's not beyond your abilities. Since I moved all of my computers
>> from the living room to the home office, my browsing speed has
>> dramatically decreased. I didn't want to mess with the cable company to
>> get another jack put in, so I just teed off from where they had it
>> coming through the wall and ran a cable through the attic to get to the
>> home office. There is a TV in here, and the signal is quite fuzzy when
>> we ever turn it on (suffice it to say less than frequently). I'm kind
>> of thinking that the cheap-o coaxial tees that I purchased may be the
>> culprit, but I have to also wonder if the teeing itself is my problem.
>> I know they make cable signal boosters, but I haven't heard of anybody
>> using such a devise upstream of a cable modem. Have any of you used one
>> of these things in an application like this? I would just hate to waste
>> the money if that wouldn't work. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --Michael
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