> Curly wrote: > > > I have internet from the cable company, but no cable tv. Since > the cable company can run tv and internet over the same cable in > the house, is there a way I can take a coax from the antenna, and > put that in the coax with the internet?
Technically - yes. Practically - probably not. > We installed coax over the whole house in 2001 (along with a lot > of cat 5 so ethernet is available almost anywhere in the house.) Is all that coax connected to a distribution system - Amps/splitters/taps/etc? If so, you should be able to feed the antenna into the input of the distribution and have it show up "everywhere". Or does it at least all "home run" to/from one location? If so, you could still feed the antenna to this "hub" location but only hook up the lines you are using. > I have tried running multiple coax from one MAKE.com antenna, but > that does not work. > The reservation I have about that is that what I found before was > that if the cable was not continuous from the antenna to the tv, > the signal was lost. Even one splitter or coupling was enough to > lose the signal. I am not sure a signal amp would prevent that > with the digital signal. That doesn't make sense... A connector shouldn't degrade the signal _that_ much. A splitter should decrease the signal strength at the TV by 3 dB - which isn't very much. A small amp is typically 7-12 dB which should be more than enough to compensate for the splitter losses. Oh - and the best place for the amp is as close to the antenna as you can practically put it. > Back in the flat cable days, an antenna signal amp/splitter, and > I could run flat cable all over the house. That can be done with coax too. Coax has higher loss per foot than twin-lead - but coax is much less susceptible losses caused by nearby metal. -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
