On 10 Mar 2012, at 21:44, Levi Pearson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Wade Preston Shearer > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a 100" boom HDTV antenna in my attic. The signal goes down into my >> basement where I split it four ways to the various rooms in my house. I am >> in the process of finishing my basement. I will have three more rooms there >> that will need a signal. I don't currently have any signal issues (length of >> run, concurrent draw, etc). Will I be fine simply upgrading to an eight-way >> splitter [1] or would I be smarter to get a splitter with a signal booster >> [2]? What exactly does a coax signal booster do? >> > > All splitters cause some signal attenuation. A signal booster just > amplifies the signal a bit to compensate for the attenuation. If the > signal is fine now, the plain splitter may be fine as well, but either > way I'd make sure the junction point was in a utility box of some sort > that you can still get to after you finish the walls. >
Amen to that. Those types of cables can be a problem. Hopefully you are putting them in conduit in case you need to pull and rerun or adjust in the future. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
