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TIL splitting a coax line with cheap splitters kills signal more than I thought
I was troubleshooting a customer's internet drop in Ohio last week and finally found the problem. They had a 3-way splitter from the dollar store feeding three TV boxes. I swapped it out for a quality 2-way with a 75 ohm terminator on the unused port. Downstream signal went from -15 dBmV to -7 dBmV after the swap. The customer said their streaming stopped buffering immediately. Has anyone else seen that much difference just from swapping a splitter?
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oscarc5318d ago
Yeah I actually read something about this the other day, how cheap splitters can have way more resistance than they're supposed to and it just eats up your signal. Crazy that a dollar store part was costing them that much.
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sarah_mason4d ago
Oh man, @cole994 got burned hard by that dollar store junk! Cheap splitters are such a gamble, you might save a buck but lose half your channels. Totally not worth it for the headache.
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