Nalin, please share your expertise on this. I have high speed internet(Rogers).When I connected the cable to my TV, I could see most of the channels grainy. What type of a splitter I could use to split the signals so that I can watch TV and surf the net. Your input will be much appreciated. thanks in advance bro.
A good quality 5-1000 MHz splitter would do it, I think. There is always a decibel loss - about 3-5 in any splitter. The better the quality, the lesser the loss.
To answer your question, a tap is purely a splitter, but one with a managed output on one side.
If you are setting up a distribution system of say 5 flats or houses, running a single cable and taking feeds off the cable as it runs past the flat/house, the outlet at the beginning of the run will be much stronger than the one at the end, as the one at the end will have gone through several splitters.
Using taps, accounts for this, so if you wanted to increase the output at your flat/house, simply use a tap with a lower output attenuation.
Given an insertion loss of 4db per tap, a line of five taps will mean that at the last outlet, the original signal will have been reduced by five times 4db and no extra attenuation is needed on the output. (in real terms 6db is about the minimum output attenuation on a tap)
Actually my problem is ,the grainy pictures I am getting when I connect the cable from outside directly to the TV without splitting. ( mind that I have only internet subscription). How can I make this pictures clear? Any suggestions?
Pluto, Only HD tvs can pick up some Local channels, (I'm talking about those we usually get with antenna) but You can't do any thing with rest of the channels. Buy IKS recr..
Pluto if you only suscribed to High Speed Internet, the cable guy installed a trap outside to block everything but Internet. You won't receive anything else.
Pluto belatedly stated "I connect the cable from outside directly to the TV without splitting. ( mind that I have only internet subscription)."
The Outer Limits answered: "Pluto if you only suscribed to High Speed Internet, the cable guy installed a trap outside to block everything but Internet. You won't receive anything else."
I get all the basic chanels when i connect direct to Tv. The problem is picture is not clear but grainy and audio is not clear either. My question is , Is there a way, I could make the picture clear.
Yo will not go to jail if you try a spliter but if you remove this filter you will be exposed.
It seems to be a active filter powered by a low voltage on cable line.
Many channels are very clean and few are grainy, but like I says those channels are without interest, I get channels like Global which we can get with rabbit ears or commune chamber.
So I get OTA channels with a pretty good quality and many FTA and feed, then many good channels on stream. I'm happy with it.
Thanks to all who took part in this discussion. I will leave the cable as it is and use only for the internet. hopefully the standalone FTA era will come back once again. Good luck to all.
