2 way splitter killing my broadband

[duoduo]

Hi all,

Been using a splitter for the last seven months to be able to view VM on my solo 2. I have had intermittent issues every couple of months and never got to the bottom of it until today. It is definitely the splitter, as soon as I disconnected this and put the vm feed directly into my router the signal immediately returns. Can anyone explain this to me and how I can get around this? Most of the time everything is fine but as I say occasionally stops working for a couple of days and right now not working at all when using the splitter.

Splitter model is called Part King 2 way splitter 5-2450 mhz

[duoduo]

This is a picture of culprit splitter

[Bangord30]

I started with that off eBay. Cheap rubbish. Get a Konig or Tratec 5 - 1000mhz off eBay or Amazon should sort it! :-)

[Sicilian]

Some here http://www.world-of-satellite.co.uk/satellite-and-terrestrial/coax-splitters

[DaMacFunkin]

Even with a better quality splitter you are risking reducing the power levels on your modem to unsuitable levels, a 2 way split results in about 2.7db loss per port, the only way you survive this is if your modem levels are running a bit high to start of with, if they are at the lower end of the acceptable limit you are asking for trouble.

[duoduo]

Thank 's for your input guys, I'll look to get one of the better splitters as yes this was cheap crap of fleabay.

[duoduo]

Being a little impatient here but there's a maplins near me will this work


http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/2-way-f-plug-aerial-splitter-qq69a

[ronand]

China's finest. Just look at the insertion loss figures.

In short - no.