On 19 Feb 2006 09:33:38 -0800, "Koons" <joaoa***@rcn.com> wrote:

>I have a digital cable package and have been having reoccurring
>problems with reception on a block of channels (TNT, Fox Soccer
>Channel, Fox Sports En Español, and I think Spike). I've talked to
>my cable carrier (RCN) literally more than a dozen times and I
>haven't gotten a decent explanation. This is a bit long, so I'd
>appreciate the readers following it and helping me diagnose this. Here
>is my set-up:
>I split my cable in my attic and I run one wire into Room A/ TV A, an
>old set which is not cable ready, and where I can therefore only
>receive channels through 98. The cable there was run through a VCR and
>now a DVR.  The second wire goes to Room B/TV B, where I do have a
>cable box. Currently, that signal is split, one wire going straight to
>the TV and the other to my DVR. However, this splitter is not the
>issue, because my reception problems precede it. In other words, they
>go back to a time when I had a traditional unsplit connection through a
>digital box. It is on this second TV that this block of channels
>disappears for days at a time. To test whether it is the cable Box, I
>have taken it to Room A, connected it to TV A, and discovered that
>these channels do work there. Now, back to room B. As I said, I have
>split the signal. When this block disappears, I notice that TNT does
>come through the" cable box bi-passed", post-split cable going
>straight to the TV (I can't test the other ones, because the TV
>can't tune channels above 100). Therefore, it does not seem to be a
>post-split problem (remember - I was having this problem before the
>splitter anyway). But it also appears not to be the box. Can anyone
>give me a clue here? Would an amplifier help? I'm lost.
>

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