3-way Splitter For Cable Internet

[Shinyoung Gedris]

Doesrunning multiple coaxial splitters on a single coaxial cable line effect quality of service for cable internet connections? Suppose there are 2-4 splitters between the cable line coming into a building before the connection to a cable modem, does this negatively effect the latency, throughput, etc of a cable internet connection by any measurable amount?

You're not likely to have any problems. Many people do it themselves. If you are already receiving a marginal signal, a splitter might add enough signal loss to cause problems. If you have problems, I would suggest having your cable company install it for you. Most will do it for free (or possibly a small fee). They will have the right parts and be able to check the signal. If the signal strength is too low, they can often boost the incoming signal from the outside or provide the correct type of amplified splitter.

P2 is the output, so you get P1/ 2.23872114 output power. The next question is, will you notice? For analog signals, like TV, I notice just a little extra noise. That might be my imagination though. For digital signals, like you internet, this means your bit error rate will go up slightly. (Since the signal to noise ratio will be lower). So, you get more packets with flipped bits. When this happens sometimes the packet can correct itself, sometimes you to resend the packet. This basically, means your internet connections will be a little slower.

You will not notice any errors or speed differences with your internet as long as you are within the specified operating range that it is supposed to run in. For a 256 qam carrier you want a 32 snr, you want better than a 1 e - 8 Bit error rate. And you want better than a -10 dbmv signal level. You also want no worse than a 55 dbmv upstream level. If you can stay within those ranges you will not notice any difference. As an fyi, as long as their is not any issues such as ingress, cable damage, passive damage, or other issues such as to low MER ETC. You will not see bit error rates. You will see bit errors, when bits of information start to fall outside of the decision boundaries for a qam signal. Their are many factors that can cause that but as long as you follow the afforementioned guidelines you will not cause these at the house.

However, another thing to be aware of is that having unterminated cables can also affect your signal quality (By unterminated, I mean not connected to a device. Any device with a cable input will have a 75 ohm terminating resistor on the input [ref]).

If you have cable drops in each room, disconnect the cable runs that are not in use. Otherwise, you can get signal reflections off the unterminated cable ends, that interfere with your signal quality and television.

I identified the coax cables I want to use for hard wiring except 1 - which is shorted. By process of elimination - that is likely the one to the room where I want to put a hard wire to improve online meetings.

The splitters will typically show a short when using an ohmmeter. In the CATV industry, 75 ohm resistors integrated in a threaded cap are used to identify specific cable runs, as the capped line will read 75 ohms while others will read open or shorted by splitter.

To watch TV in another room without a cable box, however, that information will have to be mirrored. To achieve that, you can attach a cable splitter between the output of your main cable box and first TV, then run one or more secondary lines to other televisions.

Passive cable splitters are different from A/C-powered splitters. Signals traveling through passive splitters degenerate slightly with each split. Powered splitters boost signals to their original strength from the source.

Passive cable splitters can weaken TV signals, but not always noticeably. Cable length and distance from the signal source are more likely to affect TV quality, in which case a powered cable splitter can usually fix the problem.

What happens in the latter (the one which you purchased) is that the construction is in essence a 2-way splitter with one output to the world (the -3.5 dB port) and the other output to an input on a second 2-way splitter with its outputs brought out ot the world (the -7 dB ports). That is why 1 output has less attenuation than the other 2 (which are the same).

As for grounding the splitter, shouldn't be necessary as the ONT (if installed properly) is grounded and there really should only be a single point "earth" ground in the system which is provided by the ONT through the coax cable braid.

To understand what's going on, you need to understand how the internal wiring of a splitter typically looks. Each "split" costs approximately 3.5db. The signal attenuation numbers are reported relative to the initial source and not relative to one another (which is why, for instance, in some scenarios a STB will work fine seeing the TV signal, but not be able to see the router to get it's guide data -- depending on how many splits are between it and the router.

When the diagrams above in hand, you can see that adding an additional 2-way splitter to the -3.5db output of a 3-way splitter will essentially give you the same functionality. Adding the 2-way to one of the -7.0db outputs however would not be equivalent.

The most important part is to insure that you do not leave any outputs unconnected. Doing so allows interference to enter the system and this can cause lots of issues. Either use splitters with exactly the needed number of outputs or purchase some inexpensive terminators to cap the unused outputs.

As a previous poster also said, only one earth ground should be created. Since the coax should already be connected to ground at the ONT (you should be able to quickly verify this), you should not connect the splitters inside the home also to ground as these slight variations in grounding differential could great unintended current flow between devices of slightly different ground potential. (Technically in this case since it's just grounding the shielding to bleed off any radio interference, it shouldn't matter, but it is wholly unnecessary).

Re the ground i actually noticed there was a splitter grounded further along in the basement. They seem to have run some lines across the basement near my router then circled back across the basement and split a line to get to my two tv's above each other. This is where I swapped out the 2 for the 3.

The ONT is the box where the fiber arrives at your house and to which the Coax and Phone Line terminate. It's sometimes inside your house and sometimes mounted outside. ONT stands for Optical Network Terminal

I got the DTV service installed few days ago and it seems that the internet connection is a little bit slower. As far as I understand the best option is to have separate cables for each of the service but unfortunately this doesn't seem as a viable option.

DirecTV and you cable internet can't be shared on the same cable, unless you have some kind of special set up at your condo. and if this is the case, then you need to talk to who ever manages your accounts at your condo. BTW, who install they DirecTV service?

MDU setups can be done where modem and DTV are shared on same line but not with the splitter you have. Describe your setup a little better if you can. Is there anything before the splitter you have or after?

I don't have issues with DTV, all the channels I have tested so far seem to work fine. The internet connection seems a little bit worse, there is definitely some packet loss going on.... the bandwidth is still high, but it drops more frequently then before .....

Depending on the DirecTV system that you have, DirecTV can use frequencies anywhere from 2 to 2150 MHz. cable uses any where from 5 to 850 MHz. so having them both on cable will overlap with each other

You are most likely in an MDU system and one dish shared for the entite apt complex. Like I said you can set this up to work right with the one cable but not the way it is now. Be interested to know what they did on the outside.

I talked to a guy from the maintenance and he told me that he will provide a filter that can be apply to directv signal (after the main splitter) to reduce the back feeding of the DirecTV signal into the splitter.

This product works by splitting the single coaxial cable into multiple ones, and let you use multiple TVs at once with a single cable connection at your home or office, instead of using multiple cable connections. They receive high-signal quality for all devices with minimal connection loss and uninterrupted connectivity under any conditions.

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Talking about the design of this cable splitter, it is only a 2-way splitter which means that it may not be ideal for heavy-duty usage. Thankfully, this design does result in a pretty low signal noise of just -3.5 dB. Another great thing about this cable splitter from GE is that you get a lifetime warranty with it since GE is a highly reputable brand.

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