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I'm not sure what you call splitting your cable service between several tv's in your home. I wanted to split my cable so that I can get cable tv in multiple tv's in my house. I checked and saw that i have a 2 way splitter installed. One running to my cable tv, and the other running to my cable modem. If i wanted to add an additional tv i supposed i would have to purchase a 3 way splitter. I also noticed that the coaxial cable running towards my house has a "filter" or metal device that connects 2 cables. I was wondering what that was. Its on both my cable tv and cable modem cable. If i wanted to add an additional tv, what supplies would i need to purchase? Would i just need a 3 way splitter and coaxial cable? Or would i also need to get that "filter?" Are generic brands good enough, or should i get high quality (more expensive) items to get better, cleaner reception? Thanks a lot!

mojo

yeah, this is about to get moved to "entertainment" i'm sure...

but anyways, you'll need to be sure your signals are all clear. most importantly the signal to the cable modem. your main drop will run right into the cable modem from a single splitter. you may be able to run more than one splitter before that, but don't count on it working that way.

anyhow, you didn't say how many drops are in your pad. assuming you just have the one, you can run one splitter directly to the modem, then the other to another splitter that will feed multiple tvs. it's sloppy and will look like spaghetti, but it should work. depending on the number of tvs you wanna hook up, you can get splitters for like $2.50 at radio shack or target. we're not talking sophisticated stuff here, unless you wanna design it to do stuff, like toggle between devices or whatever. but your basic run should be fine as long as your cable modem comes off of the main drop, which should have been specified as it was first installed.

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spigidygak

Or. . . just go ahead and go for the gold. Get a 3 way splitter and replace the one you got. Make sure though you get one rated 5MHz-2GHz rather than the 900MHz, will help you out. Also if the signal is worse, an amp for the cable might help out some. Also look for a splitter with the lowest db rating (like 3.5 or so) for the least amount of signal loss.

You may not need to worry about getting a GHz splitter though if the modem is your first concern. If I remember right I think DOCSIS frequency runs upsream in the 50MHz range and downstream is anywhere from like 60MHz-900MHz. But for the tv, especially if you have digital, the GHz range will help keep signals clean.

I'm not sure what you mean by the filter thing having two wires going into one. My guess is what you see is an amp for the signal. Pretty normal if your line is running far from a utility pole transmitter. Also, yes brands matter, in the sense of the performance ratings. One last thing get RG6 coaxial.

Oh and buy it at home depot. . . cheapest place, yet good stuff.

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