O' mighty Poobahs, once again, I need some education. This time, it's on CATV, RG6 cables, splitters and cable signal amplification.
Here's the deal: I'm running cable to a room in our house that doesn't have it. It's a downstairs room which means I can't easily tie into the CATV cables in the attic. My best choice is to tie in where the underground run from the cable company comes out of the ground and splits into two runs for the up- and down-stairs outlets. From that initial splitter, it's about a 60' run to the rear of the wall outlet I've installed. I'm using RG6, BTW. The splitter installed by the cable company shows to be -3db for each of its two outlets. I cannot find a 3-way splitter to replace that existing 2-way that doesn't show a -7 db or greater loss.
Here's the questions:
1) Is there a 3-way splitter available that has only a -3 db rating for each outlet? If so, where can I find it? This is my first preference.
2) If there isn't one, can I use one of those less sensitive splitters and not experience a visible drop in PQ?
3) How does a signal amp work? If I have a significant loss of db at the splitter, will the amp return the signal to its original form, ie. no data lost?
Thanks gang.
Here's the deal: I'm running cable to a room in our house that doesn't have it. It's a downstairs room which means I can't easily tie into the CATV cables in the attic. My best choice is to tie in where the underground run from the cable company comes out of the ground and splits into two runs for the up- and down-stairs outlets. From that initial splitter, it's about a 60' run to the rear of the wall outlet I've installed. I'm using RG6, BTW. The splitter installed by the cable company shows to be -3db for each of its two outlets. I cannot find a 3-way splitter to replace that existing 2-way that doesn't show a -7 db or greater loss.
Here's the questions:
1) Is there a 3-way splitter available that has only a -3 db rating for each outlet? If so, where can I find it? This is my first preference.
2) If there isn't one, can I use one of those less sensitive splitters and not experience a visible drop in PQ?
3) How does a signal amp work? If I have a significant loss of db at the splitter, will the amp return the signal to its original form, ie. no data lost?
Thanks gang.
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