On April 11, 2004 11:37 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 11 April 2004 09:22 am, Steve Kaurfman wrote: > > What about having the cable run on the outside of the house for the > > office? They should be able to split it where it comes into the house on > > the outside. My home has a box on the outside with 3 or 4 connections > > for different runs. > > Coax should be fine outside, amazingly, all cable starts outside at some > point. I have a run underground from the b0x at the street all the way up > to the house and have never had a problem. You can split the cable any > where you want, just as long as the first y splits to the TVs and the cable > modem. If you split off the cable modem below where you have already split > off for a TV or two you could suffer some signal degradation. So if you > split off the cable outside the house, and one run goes to where the > existing tv splitter is, and the other runs outside and comes into the > house where you want the cable modem, you should be fine.
There's a similar concept in wiring for telephony. The attached diagram should show most of the concept. The same concept applies to cable. What's missing from the dia diagram is the filter that a lot (most) telcos use to isolate their ADSL from the dial tone which should show right on the protector and dedicated to the computer line. In reality it's a notch filter which removes the ADSL signal from lines you would normally use for telephones. As Greg noted it performs the same function as splitting the cable line at their main splitter to your house, which sometimes also is fused, and keeping all your TV runs on one side of that splittter. Hope it helps. ttfn John
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