Ken Elliott wrote:
> Usually, the cable company puts a splitter just before the cable modem. One
> side of the split goes to the modem (50% of the signal) and the other side
> goes to the TV, or another splitter. So if you have two TVs, they each see
> 25% - half of the split signal from the first splitter. (That's not exactly
> how it works, but it's close enough.)
>
> I'll bet you moved the cable modem to a "25%" connection. You might be able
> to rewire things to allow a stronger signal to get to the modem. Each
> splitter drops the signal strength even more. You want the modem directly
> connected on the first splitter, and you want it to be a 1 to 2 connection,
> and to be of very good quality.
>
That's probably my problem. On the first one to two, it goes to the
living room TV and then the home office. The next splitter goes from
the home office TV to the modem. I could test this by bypassing the
splitter in the home office and see if that improves things. If so,
then bingo, problem solved. Then I would have to run a second coax or
do like Chuck said and put the modem back in the living room.
> Ken Elliott
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of michael hast
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:58 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] slow connection
>
> 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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