Cable Splitter for Rogers

Sidney Shapiro sidney-3Kd7Tu4o6f/sBN0MCq728g at public.gmane.org
Wed Jan 5 19:43:27 UTC 2005


Steve wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 10:19:58 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
><lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>>On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:50:37AM -0500, Sidney wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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).
>>
>>Lennart Sorensen
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>That is true... there are many reasons why a signal may be bad... low
>quality cable/splitters, poor signal entering the house (some TV's,
>like Sony's handle low signal very well, others, like Panasonics need
>higher levels for their tuner to do a good job), electrical
>interference around the tuner (possible inside a computer), to low
>quality tuners.
>
>But you are on the right track... the best you can do is use the best
>quality for everything that is within your control. BTW, does the
>signal llok good when you go directly into your tv tuner card? If so,
>then you've narrowed it down to the splitter and jumper cable you are
>using. If it mainly gives you a snowy picture, then it is signal loss
>from the splitter or cable. If you get other video problems (lines,
>waves, ghosting) it may be from electrical interference (ingress)...
>again which should be remedied by better quality cable, connectors,
>splitter. HTH.
>
>As for Rogers cables and splitters, I know that they used to use high
>quality components... unless they have changed that.
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The cables I was using seem to be of very cheap quality. I great a great 
picture with the rogers cable attached directly to the computer. I think 
it may be because of the splitter and the wire (I picked them up at a 
dollar store). I am going to try to find a higher end wire and splitter 
and see if that does the trick. I called Rogers to see if I could get 
one at their locations and they said to just go in and check, so thats 
my next stop.

Sid

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