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Posted by riggor99999 on April 23, 2006, 6:48 pm
> We have decided to move our high speed internet cable modem to a new
> room in our house. We have a cable outlet in the new room but was told
> we need to activate it for the internet rather than the TV before
> using. Of course, Charter wants to charge us an activation fee and time
> for the repair person's visit. We want our main computer hooked up
> directly to the cable rather than the wireless option and we do not
> want to run ugly cable wire along the walls from the upstairs internet
> activated cable outlet (where the internet connection is now) to the
> new room downstairs where we want to reconnect our modem to.
>
> Can we activate the cable ourselves somehow since we already have the
> service and modem, or do we have to pay these jerks even more money
> just to move our modem location.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Clyde
>
I don't have charter...but typically - they put a splitter on the cable feed
as soon as it enters the house. One feeds the TVs, and one feeds the cable
modem. You should not hang the cable modem off the TV runs since it can
cause signal problems. You want a dedicated run for the cable modem.
All you need to do - is find the run from the room you want to move to - and
re-wire accordingly where it enters the house / all the splitters are. Make
that run the direct run.
If you want to watch TV in that room and only have that one run - put a
splitter on it in that room - one to the TV and one the cable modem (yes -
everyone - I know - not recommended). The ideal choice is to have two diff
runs - one for TV and for internet.
You know - wireless would be the way to go - why don't you want wireless?
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