AKICOLJ: Cable TV

[gerisullivan]

I have cable TV. The former owner had cable connections in several rooms, but when my cable was hooked up, the installer checked, then said the previous generation(s) of cable weren't good and he installed one new cable. Shortly after that, I tried one of the upstairs connections just to see if it worked; it didn't.

My living room arrangement is no longer working. One of the possible rearrangements involves moving the TV 20 feet away, across the room lengthwise from the 6-8 feet of cable it is currently connected to.

Is there a solution for this that a cable neophyte can handle? Preferably one that doesn't involve calling the cable company and paying them to put in another connection?

I tried Google -- from what I can make out of the technical pages my search turned up, I should be able to do something with a splitter. I don't really want to split the signal, though; I just want the cable to be long enough to reach across the room. That's likely to end up being more like 35 feet -- I'd run it along the baseboards and not straight across the room itself.

Fingers crossed there's an easy answer to this!

(Yes, I've been watching too much HGTV. Not that there's anyplace else in my house to put everything if I were to empty out the room for starters as their shows so often do. Lovely though it would be to paint if I did....)

Comments

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It looks like cable amplifiers are readily available online.

(I'd likely go straight thataway unless someone had a spare splitter I could try first, just to see if it worked.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I have a spare splitter -- want me to mail it to you?

[gerisullivan.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for the offer of your spare splitter! From other comments, it sounds like I should try a plain (digital) connector instead, so don't mail anything my way just yet.

(And if you find another home for it, please don't feel bound by the fact that I might ask if you still have it a month or two down the road.)