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Sicilian (29-05-14)
I've got a cable/t2 tuner on order from sponsor now that Vu have shipped me a replacement box (2 weeks to work out they couldn't fix it....) so some time over the weekend I will be getting my hands into this, slightly of topic question will the tuner loop all frequencys thru to my VM box or will they be limited. Ta.
You can split a "cable" cable without restrictions although you get a bit of signal loss.
Last edited by abu baniaz; 29-05-14 at 20:33.
Yeah I know, thats what I was looking to avoid, in no way do I want affect the power levels of my modem...
What does a modem have to do with a cable-signal
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Cable TV and Cable broadband come down the same cable.
You should be fine with split. They sometimes add attenuators to reduce signal.
Nothing will 'stress' the modem if you loopthrough/split signal.
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when I got my Cable installed in 2000 by NTL I got them to fit extra feeds to my back room
so I have direct cables to my modem and receiver from the distribution box
I have the main feed box in the front room with a loop to another box then 1 cable connects to the TV
then a rather long cable fed through the wall to my back room
that feeds to another box and that feeds to my main box that feeds my TV & modem
it sounds complicated but it is simple really, so all my feeds are dedicated Direct feeds from the original cable box and no cable splitters that you can see mmmm
that's what I thought till I took one of the covers off the wall to decorate and to my surprise
the special connection Boxes are just basic 3 way cable splitters in a fancy cover and the boxes are only their to make the connections to the cables look tidy
But at least with me wanting so many connections they ran a new beefed up main cable to my house
so at the moment I am on 60meg broadband soon to be upped to 100meg Tivo box in my back room and a V+HD box in our lasses front room
Last edited by nsw9154; 29-05-14 at 22:09.
Not true, your power levels are balanced at the green box as to how many prepherials you have running on the stream, this is particularly true if TiVo is involved, if you read cable forums many peoples upstream problems are caused by the signal being split to many times causing low power levels.Originally Posted by Rob van der Does
The best way to connect your docsis cable 3 modem is on a separate feed.
Where the cable comes into the house, the first thing is using a splitter to make a feed to your modem and the rest of the house. These splitters should be special made for these purpose (output has different filters). (Our your providers should have delivered a special connectionbox, 1 in, 1 out modem, 1 out tv and 1 out radio).
So modem is connected direct after first splitter. Nothing else should be connected to that feed.
The rest in the house can be done 2 way (or a combi of it).
Use 1 feed for the rest of the house. Therefore you must use loop through connection boxen. The disadvantage of this is the damping of 15dB in each box .
The best way is to use a distribution amplifier. It amplifies the signal before splitting it into multiple feeds.
Remember to use at the end of the feed an end-connection box. Never leave a feed 'open'. Also when you are not using outlets of a splitter or distribution amplifier, terminate the outlet with a special 75ohm cap.
Last edited by Peterj; 30-05-14 at 08:16.
bassethound (01-06-14)
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this is a genuine virmin splitter with virmin leads that I am using for the time being to connect my miraclebox & Tivo boxes from the original feed
strangely enough I never noticed before now that it labelled set top box/cable modem i have the Tivo connected via the cable modem outlet and the picture is perfect
and the miraclebox connected via the set top box outlet and the picture quality is
I will have to get a dedicated set top box splitter and check the difference, I will swap the connections round later and see if they change
Trust me mate, your power levels are set at the cabinet for your tivo to work correctly with your modem, you may have to disconnect your tivo and play with some attenuators to get a good pic on your Miraclebox.
Hello, i have got my cable tuner and NEW duo2, ive set it up and installed, i have my sat tuner set to scan sky england Granada HD, and i have my cable tuner set to 40965 Knowsley 1, in abm i have sky england as def provider and Virmin set to generate main bouquet only in custom bouqet Virmin(tv), i do a scan i get the usual 583 services on sky, then i get 900 and odd on cable scan, but it doesnt put the cable channels in any bouquet, if i choose satellitte button and browse to cable provider, all the channels are in there from my region in alphabetical order and i can view the fta ones, bbc north west etc, why is it not creating a bouquet and putting them in there, help please.
Thanks.
edit: i've channged my config to 40967 Preston 1 the area i live in i'm sure is this id now, i used to be in knowlsey area even though i only moved 2 miles. But still no bouqet creation in Apollo, does this actually work yet?
ABM does work for cable although I have only tested it on a receiver with only a cable tuner.
Double check net Id is correct by comparing with official receiver.
You may wish to enable service type icons in your channel settings as well as adding the provider prefix in ABM.
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