Do Cable TV and Cable for internet use the same line?

[slinetz]

Just notice that my room have no tv jack but have comcast cable connection. will it work if i plug in the cable 's wire to tv?

 

[mobobuff]

I have no idea what you're asking.

 

[SomeDude22]

wrong forum try networking

 

[mobobuff]

Oh I think I get it. Your room has an RJ-45 jack, but no coaxial jack... If that's the case no you can't get cable TV from a networking line.

 

[MSCoder610]

But if you have an actual cable jack, connected to a cable modem...
1. Try connecting to TV
2. ?
3. Profit

 

[Twista]

i understand you quite fine, since we both speak the same lang. From what i heard you can get cable tv from that cord.. so plug it in and try it.

 

[jagec]

you'll need a splitter to watch TV and surf the web at the same time, but yes, it uses the same line.

Apparently in some situations, if you are only paying for internet you end up getting TV anyway with a splitter.

 

[blodhi74]

yes.... all U need is a spliter

 

[slinetz]

thanks you guys are the best. then what can i do, if i don't have a phone jack in my room but i have cable connection ? ^)^

 

[Twista]

Originally posted by: slinetz
thanks you guys are the best. then what can i do, if i don't have a phone jack in my room but i have cable connection ? ^)^

cable is cable...
if you have dsl than you need some kind of phone jack

 

[MDE]

Used to work for me, then Comcast started blocking it. Gave me a perfect reason to get a DirecTiVo.

 

[Yellow Dog]

Originally posted by: slinetz
Just notice that my room have no tv jack but have comcast cable connection. will it work if i plug in the cable 's wire to tv?

yep, go to a splitter and hook one up to the tv, and the other to the cable modem

 

[Pepsi90919]

i have no idea what language you are speaking

 

[Zee]

unless you are paying for the tv service, it wouldnt work. they would have placed a filter on the line to only allow internet

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: Lazee
unless you are paying for the tv service, it wouldnt work. they would have placed a filter on the line to only allow internet

You might think that.
After I signed up for RoadRunner cable internet service, I put on a splitter and was able to watch cable TV for over a year before they got around to slapping on a filter to filter out TV frequencies.

 

[Wag]

FIOS is really interesting because they use a totally different setup for home distribution.

 

[aplefka]

If anyone is interested in buying one or more brand new lifetime warrantied Magnavox 8-way Coax splitters, let me know. I've got some extras that I'm trying to pawn off and it seems that some of you in this thread may be able to use them.