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Every room in the house has an outlet and is wired for cable. However, I believe only 3 are active. How can i activate the outlet in another room? I went in the attic and found the splitter (3way) that connects my room and my kids room. Man, i can keep going and going so ill just ask my question.....How can i activate the outlet in another room? Would i need another splitter and how would i know which cable it is? There are like 20 coax cables and some have the screwing part cut off. Can i do it myself or will i have to call ATT?
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Just get some wireless receivers from att. -
I have the maximum number of wireless receivers (2) I just want to move a wired box to a different room.Originally posted by mstng86 View Post.....bro....Comment
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I do not stay current on cable technologies - admittedly - but I've made some mistakes in the past that may help.
1. When buying a larger splitter, but sure to buy the EXACT specifications on your current splitter. i.e. if you upgrade to an 8 way splitter and your current one is labeled with 1000 or 1500 mhz, get that one.
2. If the other cable is the same as the stuff on the splitter (RG58 or 59 I'd guess), you're good to terminate the ends and use it. I pussed out and started using those compression connectors that you can find at lowes/HD. Easy/peasy.
Why is all the cabling cut? Easiest way maybe just to get a splitter large enough to accommodate them all - use your existing cable box(es) to ensure it's good and then pay for whatever STBs/service you want.Originally posted by MR EDDComment
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I think a lot if the cables are cut because they were probably used by previous cable providers. I'll look into the splitter but I connected the TV receiver to my router via cat5 cable and got TV service. Bad thing is that I think it is causing my internet to move slow......bro....Comment
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They run Uverse with cat 5. Well that's what they did in my house. It's a cat 5 run from the cable box outside to the wired in receiver.Comment
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Also if you have 3 people watching TV and others on the Internet, it's going to be slow. That's why we have the power max.Comment
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like they said above...you need a bigger splitter. You need an output for each room with a coax, so add it up and buy the splitter.
Other than that...without a test tool, get someone to yell at you in the attic if its working or not when you screw each cable on the connector.Comment
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yeah, thats the plan. The cat 5 plugged into the router works but the quality is crap. Also, when on my cellphone, the TV starts to lag. Now i need to look into splitters. Apparently some splitters are better than others.Originally posted by 8mpg View Post.....bro....Comment
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Need to look at signal loss in the splitter also, some will have -3.5db, -5db, or 7db. The closer to 0 the better the signal to the box will be. Depending on the length of the run and quality of cable, you may need a signal booster at some point. That is usually a worse case scenario though.
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cat5 should have enough bandwidth to do almost everything in a house unless you are doing some major downloadingOriginally posted by A+ View PostComment
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You'll want to run the Uverse boxes to their own dedicated switch that is plugged directly into your uverse router. This will help segregate the uverse TV network traffic some. Pretty sure uverse uses multicasting and that can cause slow network performance.Comment
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