Splitting Advice

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Hello lads, only just found you lot, great site with some superb info. got my 500c yesterday and up n running within the hour with the great DK 1.1 image loaded.

At the moment ive just chucked the 500c in place of my virgin stb and it's all working great.

The set up in the house used to be that i had the virgin stb split thru a one4all integrated splitter/booster into 4 rooms in the house which worked well but of course everyone had to watch the same channel that the stb was outputting.



My plan now is to stick a 500c in every room as they are cheap enough to do so and i'm after a bit of help on this. Rather than split the output of a stb like before i gues i want to split the signal at the point where the virgin feed comes into the house.

I also have virgin broadband which is currently split from the feed, so i have 1 cable to the stb and 1 cable to the cable modem.

My question is - what would be the best way to go about splitting the signal to the other rooms? Ive tried running the cable feed (after the split for bb/tv) into my current splitter/booster, but cant get any signal to the 500c in any of the rooms.

Have had a read around and think i'll prob be best off getting rid of the current booster and getting a konig booster to boost the feed before using a konig (or qamtex as is used already for bb/tv) splitter.

Would i be okay to leave the splitter as is for the bb/tv and then from the tv feed, connect the konig booster inline and then split to the 4 rooms? i'd prob do it that way as it keeps the bb connection out of the way so to speak. Would all of this be feasable or does anyone see any probs?

And one final question - if i cancel my virgin tv sub altogether and keep the bb, will i still get the signal so that i can watch the tv on the 500c's?

Cheers

[mrdude]

That sounds feasable to me m8,

Feed comes in and splits to TV/MODEM
Split feed to TV gets Boosted then split into 4 feeds to other STB's.


Just make sure you check your signal strength and BER using your current 500c before you go buying different boxes.

It will work as I had 5 modems and a STB all running from the same feed...when I was experimenting with downloading at high speeds to the same PC & was getting crazy speeds.

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any more comments on this? wanting to buy some kit

[jbvid]

any more comments on this? wanting to buy some kit

Hi
Just my opinion FWIW but using too many splitters and too much cable even with a booster will leave you with strength problems on some of the STB's/Rooms, as said previously its worth running or spending on your cables, splitters, booster etc then trying your DM at the end of each line / room before buying several DM's
jbvid

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ah sorry, by 'kit' i meant booster, cable & splitter - im gonna run the cables and test with my existing dm before buying others

[Parisno]

My set up is exactly the same as yours

Feed split in two > BB and TV > TV split and split again to give four TV (2 DM500 clones, DM800 HD and Digivox), I dont have TV subscription just BB. I have 2 Konig "Yellow brick" amps

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thanks mate - just been knocking up a diagram of how i want it - glad to hear your running it like that

i thought about adding a reverse path noise blocker after the yellow bring so i get no noise on the return line - would this be a good idea? the dm's dont have talk back do they?

[Parisno]

thanks mate - just been knocking up a diagram of how i want it - glad to hear your running it like that

i thought about adding a reverse path noise blocker after the yellow bring so i get no noise on the return line - would this be a good idea? the dm's dont have talk back do they?

No they don't have talkback, don't have or need a reverse path noise blocker!