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LAN Party Forums => Support Group => Started by: wallzy on May 01, 2011, 07:40:42 PM
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Ok we have 4 bedrooms. I had the modem in one bedroom then transferred it to another one today. After hooking up the modem it will not connect to the Internet. If I put it in the other too
It still works. What is up? The light for power comes on & only the receiving light blinks.
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Signal loss? Too many splitters on the line to that point and you may need an inline signal booster. Maybe something like this?
http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Booster-484095-001-00-Bi-Directional-Amplifier/dp/B000066E6Y (http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-Booster-484095-001-00-Bi-Directional-Amplifier/dp/B000066E6Y)
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Also the house was only built 3 years ago so everything is new. I don't think the line is split. When I get chance I will check in the basement
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I blame Sully.
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Lol yeah me too. I called I believe when they hooked it up the first time they only did the one outlet. Should be done Tuesday
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It won't connect when put in a different room? Then the signal isn't going through that line. Can/have you hooked up a tv to that line to really test if there's any sort of signal going through? Also, tacos.
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That was going to be my next question: can you get a cable signal on a tv on that connection.
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never did hook up a tv to there no. We have Direct TV so there no cable box in the kids rooms. Dont know why the interent is only capable in one room. it is only a few feet from each other. It still works in the original room it was in.
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Sounds like a splitter issue, then. For the hell of it, hook up a tv and let it do a standard CATV channel search. You might get nothing, you might get a small mess of channels.
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No Internet sucks
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That's what I say, but when I don't pay my comcast bill for a while and they cut me off, I leech from 1 of the 2 unsecured signals around here until my account is happy again. It gets the job done.
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Sounds like a splitter issue, then. For the hell of it, hook up a tv and let it do a standard CATV channel search. You might get nothing, you might get a small mess of channels.
Signal issue one way or another. Vince & De are right *Twitch Cough*.
If you can find the splitter try switching the ends. In the picture below the numbers are different and (if I remember correctly it might be the exact opposite) the -3.5 is a better signal than the -7.
(http://images01.olx.com/ui/3/24/53/55242153_1.jpg)
*Edit:
I just noticed you said "by Tuesday" which I assume you mean today.
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I believe the typical guidance is for the lines on a modem to be a home run to the tap. If it's split, it could throw the signal levels out of the acceptable range. In Five Aces pic above, the numbers by the outputs on the three way splitter indicate how many dB is lost coming out of that line. I'm not a cable tech, so I don't know what the range is, but I do know that if you're outside of it, internet won't lock, you could have picture loss on the TV (in an analog world, it would come across as snow or interference, digital signal loss means the picture is cut out entirely), or you'd have no dial tone for CDV service.
It happens, but your tech should be able to fix you up. Let me know how you made out in the end.
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Yeah they fixed it today. There is one connection for the Internet. I am guessing it is the split into the house. They could and another if I wanted but did nit this time
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Bah, just run some cat5 to where you want the connection. Or use real cats, I don't care.