[Mistergq]

Originally Posted by workjohnout

I am a cable guy with coNcast. A contractor, not employee. First of all, don't ever listen to what some moron says on the phone. They're not installers, they're not technicians and they've never been in a house diagnosing a problem. They read off a script and if you deviate from it you screw them all up.

When you tell me the box is pixelating and the connections and signal are good then automatically it's the box. Their boxes suck and about 1/3 of them turn out to be bad.

As far as a booster goes, if you only have 3 connections then it is absurd to have a power booster and the installer was correct in disconnecting it. All those things do is cause trouble. If you get a snowy picture without it then the line is bad or some other bad line in the system is affecting it and you need to have the lines replaced. Boosters are only needed if you have many many outlets or your lines are extremely long or a combination of the two.

I told him 3, its actually 6. The idiots that built the condo instead of spidering the cable, ran the cable from out let one, to out let 2 (master bedroom), to outlet 3 (2nd bedroom), to outlet 4, (third bedroom converted to dinning room), to outlet 5 (back in living room).

My setup is cable comes into outlet 1. Then it is split on a two way splitter. One way goes to cable modem. Next out goes to power booster. The power booster out 1 goes to the TV in the living room and then the second out to the loop around the condo. The HD tv is on Outlet 2. there is no tv hooked up to Outlet 3 or 4. Outlet 5 then runs a coax about 15 additional feet to my PVR computer where the cable is split again to 3 more ways: one to a PVR 250, one to a PVR USB, and one to a PVR 150. 250 and USB are pretty good without the power booster. PVR 150 is absolute crap without the power booster. btw: I put more blame on the 150 then comcast's signal - but leave my power booster alone.

Comcast is already charging me for 4 outlets (3 tvs and 1 cable modem). If I would have told him 6, I am likely to end up with comcast charging me for 2 more. Sorry, I am giving coNcast enough money at this point.