Hooking up basic cable to entire house

robbydek

I want to send cable to all the jacks in my house. I don't know what to do since I have 3 splitters there with a bunch of cable. Please help me.

steveinaz

You should have a "main" cable coming in from the street, then a splitter with 1 input and numerous outputs. The outputs are the individual cable drops in the house.

peteran

Also get a signal booster from your cable company, it would improve the signal.

robbydek

But how would I send the cable through out the entire house?
And thanks for the fast reply.

Pablo

Not sure what you mean about the 3 splitters. Do you have 3 splitters next to each other already going throughout the house? Or do you want to run new cable.

Anyway you look at it, you need to find the main coming into the house (it should be a little thicker than the rest). Then run one large splitter and run to each room through that (each splitter you have drops the signal a bit, so you want to do that as little as possible).

steveinaz

robbydek wrote:

But how would I send the cable through out the entire house?
And thanks for the fast reply.

The splitter I mentioned (in your cable box outside) is what distributes the signal to each cable outlet. If you have rooms without a cble drop, you'll have to either hire someone to put one in, or install it yourself. This may require more splitters, depending on how many additional drops you want to install.

unc2701

"A Bunch of cable..." is this cable in your walls? or is it on a spool?

louhamilton

Attached is how I have my TV's connected to my cable company. Based on the signal levels to my HDTV (+12), I have no need for a signal booster/amplifier.

If you are looking for someone to run cable to different locations in your house, then that is a job for either yourself (DIY), your cable company, or a third party contractor.

-Lou

robbydek

I have all the hook ups, I just need to activate the remaining jacks. (since only one is activated right now)

Pablo

There really isn't any "activation" of a jack. It just needs to be attached to the main cable. Once it's hooked up to the main, you can just plug a tv into it (you will need a cable box to get the upper channels, but you should get basic).

You need to be more detailed on what you have now for more help. Do you know where the cable comes into the house? How many of the jacks have you tested for a signal (hooked to a tv)? Where are all those spliters? (ect..)

Dennis Gardner

Just make sure you split off evenly to reduce signal drop. Don't use a splitter on a line that has already been split if you can help it. For instance in Lou's diagram if the SDTVs were split at each TV into the next TV, the signal for the last TV is much weaker than for the first.

3 TVs shouldn't cause a signal issue, if your signal is good enough to start with. Apartment complexes are the worst offenders of signal splitting, since they don't care about quality of signal, just quantity.