Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Bougie wrote: > >>Hey folks, >> >>a friend of mine is painting the room in which his cable connection is. >>Can he plug the cable modem into another outlet, or is the connection >>outlet-specific? It's Shaw High-Speed. >> > > Having worked at Shaw I can say definitely maybe. It depends on the > wiring in the house. Basically try, if it doesn't work, call Shaw. The > connection is not outlet specific, but cable modems are more sensitive > than our eyes. The modem should work at most of the neighbors as well, > as long as they have cable. > > Shaw installs a high quality splitter to run the cable connection from wherever the main cable enters your house to wherever your cable modem is. You need to make sure the cable going to the new location is attached to the same splitter.
The cable modems use a higher frequency on the coax cable than your TV signal does, so the ordinary run of the mill splitters (read cheap radio shack model) do not work. You need the high end, high frequency splitters. They can be found at A&B sound, Visions, etc... You probably don't need to buy one, just go to where the cable comes into the house, usually by the electrical breaker panel, and disconnect the cable that runs to the current modem location, and attach the cable that goes to the temporary location to the splitter that the Shaw techie would have installed. Sorry for the long post... :) Robert Toole _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
