Hi all,
Looking for some advice if possible. I have VM cable broadband. There is a 3 way splitter outside connecting the main feed to my modem and 2 mutant boxes downstairs. Each mutant box has both tuners A and B connected via a short cable.
Until around 7 weeks ago, everything was working really well. I then noticed that some movie channels were failing to tune in both rooms with a tune failed message.
I tried replacing the splitter with a technetix one. This improved matters on 1 box whilst removing all but a handful of channels from the other.
I left the technetix in place and then replaced the rg6 cable going to my 2nd room with some Smedz wf100 after looking for recommendations on here.
This has made things even worse and now the 2nd room gets nothing at all. The main room receives the majority of channels but it varies from day to day. Sometimes bbc1 won't tune, other days that is fine and BT sports 2hd is gone.
Admittedly, the ends on the wf100 are the cheap f type scrrw connectors but i would have thought I would at least get something in the 2nd room.
Anyone have any ideas of things to try? I was thinking of trying a hdu but I'm not sure if the hdu 200 can cover the 3 way split I have?
I would have posted some signal stats from my equipment but I'm not sure what the optimum ranges are? Modem is in modem mode right now so I will check the levels once I know what I should be looking for on that and the mutant.
Any help much appreciated. I strongly suspect virmin have turned signal levels down to my house but it would be good to see what they are before doing anything further.
Thanks
Looking for some advice if possible. I have VM cable broadband. There is a 3 way splitter outside connecting the main feed to my modem and 2 mutant boxes downstairs. Each mutant box has both tuners A and B connected via a short cable.
Until around 7 weeks ago, everything was working really well. I then noticed that some movie channels were failing to tune in both rooms with a tune failed message.
I tried replacing the splitter with a technetix one. This improved matters on 1 box whilst removing all but a handful of channels from the other.
I left the technetix in place and then replaced the rg6 cable going to my 2nd room with some Smedz wf100 after looking for recommendations on here.
This has made things even worse and now the 2nd room gets nothing at all. The main room receives the majority of channels but it varies from day to day. Sometimes bbc1 won't tune, other days that is fine and BT sports 2hd is gone.
Admittedly, the ends on the wf100 are the cheap f type scrrw connectors but i would have thought I would at least get something in the 2nd room.
Anyone have any ideas of things to try? I was thinking of trying a hdu but I'm not sure if the hdu 200 can cover the 3 way split I have?
I would have posted some signal stats from my equipment but I'm not sure what the optimum ranges are? Modem is in modem mode right now so I will check the levels once I know what I should be looking for on that and the mutant.
Any help much appreciated. I strongly suspect virmin have turned signal levels down to my house but it would be good to see what they are before doing anything further.
Thanks
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