I moved home from college to save some rent while I start working. I brought my HDTV home (my parents only have SD CRTs), and my father has decided to "get with it." So he put me in charge of getting better internet/tv/phone deals along with upgrading service. Groovy, says I, sounds like a plan. So, we're going from basic cable, to HD, low tier DSL, to cable internet, etc.
So I'm working on the cable lines at the moment to set up for the cable internet (I had to run a cable line for the room I want to put the cable modem and router in). My cable lines were set up as follows: Source line comes into the house, then into a 4-way splitter. We have 4 TVs hooked up, 1 on the second floor, 1 on the first floor, and 2 in the basement. This morning, I added a second 4 way splitter (5-900 mhz, only using 2 outputs as follows). Into this new splitter, I put the house's source line and the two outputs are 1) the old 4-way splitter (video - for the TVs), and 2) to the room where the cable modem is going to be (dedicated - only split from source 1 - data). Does that sound about right? (I realize it's not rocket science, I'm trying to keep as much quality per line as I can.
Now, I do notice some noise/static that increases as I increase in channels and I think most of it is from the splitting of the video lines. Basically source -> split to old 4-way -> split to individual TVs. My question is, should I get an amp and put it after the new splitter and before the old splitter (so that only the video lines are amped as I had heard you don't want to amp the data line going to a cable modem). In addition, my 1st floor SD TV will be replaced with my HDTV (with HD-DVR box between source - TV from the cable company) - does this matter when it come to amp'ing?
So I'm working on the cable lines at the moment to set up for the cable internet (I had to run a cable line for the room I want to put the cable modem and router in). My cable lines were set up as follows: Source line comes into the house, then into a 4-way splitter. We have 4 TVs hooked up, 1 on the second floor, 1 on the first floor, and 2 in the basement. This morning, I added a second 4 way splitter (5-900 mhz, only using 2 outputs as follows). Into this new splitter, I put the house's source line and the two outputs are 1) the old 4-way splitter (video - for the TVs), and 2) to the room where the cable modem is going to be (dedicated - only split from source 1 - data). Does that sound about right? (I realize it's not rocket science, I'm trying to keep as much quality per line as I can.
Now, I do notice some noise/static that increases as I increase in channels and I think most of it is from the splitting of the video lines. Basically source -> split to old 4-way -> split to individual TVs. My question is, should I get an amp and put it after the new splitter and before the old splitter (so that only the video lines are amped as I had heard you don't want to amp the data line going to a cable modem). In addition, my 1st floor SD TV will be replaced with my HDTV (with HD-DVR box between source - TV from the cable company) - does this matter when it come to amp'ing?
