I’ve been using the EyeTV for recording and watching most of my TV in the last few weeks. This has given me the luxury of watching shows in HD and I just realized that I’m now spoiled.
After a bit of fighting with the EyeTV where the signal strength and signal quality aren’t great and missing shows, I had to revert back to the TiVo to watch some shows.
We started watching a show and the quality difference is quite amazing. I’m hopeful that I can solve my EyeTV problems pretty soon with a signal amplifier. I’ve been hesitant to get an amplifier and place it between the incoming cable and my cable modem (my cable modem is at the same place as my TV and EyeTV; I have to split the line to handle all the devices) as a cable guy several years ago warned me that my Internet connection could be degraded by an amplifier. This, however, may have been because of the particular amplifier and wiring in my house (I have RG59 in most of my house and an old amplifier in the garage).
Luckily, the cable connection to all my equipment is basically a straight connection from the outside with one splitter that was installed by the cable company. So, I’ll get an amplifier and give that a try.
I had the same problem with my signal and my TiVo HD. I basically used a splitter to split the incoming cable signal. One end goes to my cablemodem, the other end plugs into this Motorola signal amplifier
…which then goest to my house coax distribution for the rest of the house. It works just fine., but to make absolutely sure you are getting the best signal possible I suggest you properly terminate any open coax outlet in your house with these terminators
.
Thanks for the tip; I just ordered an amplifier and have some of the terminators that I’ll use. I might actually disconnect cable from the rest of the house as we don’t use it.