Cable Splitter for Rogers

[Tim Writer]

lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Sidney wrote:
> > I have Rogers high speed, the fastest residential package they offer. I 
> > would like to split the coax cable going into my cable modem and get a 
> > cable going into my computer's tuner card as well. I tried doing it 
> > using some cheaply cable I had lying around. It worked, but it was not 
> > shielded and the TV signal was of poor quality. Where can I get the 
> > heavy duty cable, splitter and connectors rogers seems to be using? I 
> > need about four feet.
> 
> Some tuner cards get a lot of interference simply from being crappy
> cards installed inside a noisy computer.  Some tuners have good
> shielding and bus isolation, others (like the original ati tuner) do
> not.  But a good cable could help a lot too especially being so close to
> the computer.  Not sure where to buy that though.  Maybe monster cable
> makes coax cables (for lots of money too of course but still).

Yes, they (Monster) do and you can get them at Future Shop, although I'm sure
there's a cheaper supplier.  They also make splitters.

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