OT: Cable signal boosters

[Cheesesteak]

I've wired my house so all tvs are fed by my main cable box in living room but now the audio to my tv in the kitchen (long cable run) is very low.

Anyone ever try one of those signal boosters to put along the line somewhere so long run signals are stronger? Will that do the trick? Better to buy a wall-powered one?

[CbEagle]

Since you already ran the wires this might not help, but I got a cable splitter booster at Lowes and it worked great all my TV's have a strong signal now. When I remodeled the house I ran all the cables back to this box and then ran the main cable into it.

[Melchior]

I've wired my house so all tvs are fed by my main cable box in living room but now the audio to my tv in the kitchen (long cable run) is very low.

Anyone ever try one of those signal boosters to put along the line somewhere so long run signals are stronger? Will that do the trick? Better to buy a wall-powered one?

Yeah, I think the amplifiers would work. You may have to play around with where you put it in relation to your splitters.

Also, make sure you aren't using any unnecessary splitters, as each split reduces the signal strength.

[Susquehanna Birder]

What kind of cable did you run? RG6?

Like CB said, a splitter amp would do the trick.

[Eagle In Ohio]

Get rid of the Tv

I've wired my house so all tvs are fed by my main cable box in living room but now the audio to my tv in the kitchen (long cable run) is very low.

Anyone ever try one of those signal boosters to put along the line somewhere so long run signals are stronger? Will that do the trick? Better to buy a wall-powered one?

It's garbage. You're welcome.

[Dolomite]

Is the TV in the Kitchen connected to a cable box? How many drops do you have, how many and what type of coax splitters are you using?

[Cheesesteak]

Wire run is standard coax. I have a weird setup...my main cable comes into the house and I have that going into the LR cable box (HDMI cable into TV) the out on the cable box is then run right back into the basement and then split a few times from there so all cables have main tv feed. I did try an 8dB Amp from Radio Shack but that didn't fix the volume on kitchen tv. I'll mess with the setup a bit more cus first attempt didn't help.

I'm thinking I may change over to Cat-5 and use a computer monitor and just put Slingbox feed into kitchen. Lags about 15-20 seconds behind main tv but does the trick.

[Dolomite]

It may be your cable box. Check the audio settings. I don't know if you have Comcast but someone else had the same problem.

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Xfinity...ow/td-p/787529

[Cheesesteak]

It may be your cable box. Check the audio settings. I don't know if you have Comcast but someone else had the same problem.

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Xfinity...ow/td-p/787529

Hey thanks, that sounds promising, I will try that sheite tonight. No idea how you found that info but good looking out Dolomite.

[Cheesesteak]

DOLOMITE...you are


I turned kitchen tv on, came up to Living Room and powered up cable box, went to settings and audio and BAM, I didn't even change any settings and the volume in the kitchen skyrocketed.


THANK YOU THANK YOU :D