I bought a massage chair and a 26" Samsung LCD for my bedroom. I want to move the tv thats in my bedroom now to the second bedroom. In the second bedroom I have my computer and the cable coming out of the wall goes to my modem. Do I just get a splitter and then get signal to my tv and internet.....how does this work? Please learn me

 

Yup, just add a splitter.

 

Coax signal to an LCD??

 

No...co-ax signal to 27" Sony Grand Wega CRT flat screen. I have to go to the cable company to get a HD/digital box.

Thanks NSXNEXT!

 

Nicky,

Do you already have a splitter connected somewhere else on that line? If so, you might run into signal degradation issues.

 

he's running coax direct-to-set.

something tells me he doesn't care too much about picture quality

 

In the second bedroom....the picture quality doesn't have to be the greatest, but I'm worried about the signal to the modem going down. As for how its set up, I have no clue! There is only one cable jack in the 2nd bedroom.

 

That's what I was referring to. Only one way to find out.

 

get a signal booster/amp...

 

I had a similar issue a while back. I had a splitter so I can have a TV in my bedroom. When my roommate moved in and wanted a TV in his room, Comcast said they would add another splitter. We complained that the signal was poor already and they just ran us a new hook up for his room free of charge. Maybe you can do that to avoid the degradation.

 

There is a filter on your coax somewhere before your modem (usually outside in your cable junction box, if you have one). You need to move this up the splitter. Put it on the output of the splitter that is going to your modem. Your modem needs it but your TV needs NOT to have it.

 

Uh, no. There is no filter needed for your modem. The only filter that would be used is if you had modem only service, or basic cable. You would have a filter on the pole that either limits the stations you receive, or blocks them all out altogether, giving you just modem service. If you have a motorola surfboard modem, you should be able to just log onto the diag page by typing http://192.168.100.1 into your web browser. There should be a link at the top for signal. You will want to have your signal typically somewhere between 10 and -10. Toward the -10 is too low, and towards the 10 is actually too high. You can have too much signal. I believe this will be in your receive power section. There will be several different ones. Of course this is all dependent on the modem you have and the cable system. If you have no issues with speed in that room and you have no problems with picture anywhere in the house, you are probably ok to just split the line. If you picture is fuzzy at all on a tv without a digital box, then you may want to figure out a different option.