hooking cable modem to t.v.

[neveryona]

I am trying to hook up my cable through the modem to the t.v. I was told that all I had to do was connect the cable line into the "in" of a three way splitter, and the t.v. cable to the out and the modem to the out. Well, it didn't work. Do I need a decoder or something as well, deppending on what company I get my cable through. i know another person that does that, he doesn't need a decoder, but he goes through a different cable company than me. Or am I just hooking it up wrong?

[Ghost_Hacker]

Someone may have more info on this, but I read somewhere that they place a filter on the line to keep people from getting free TV from their internet connection. I have digital cable TV and regular cable and there is a filter to keep the digtal signal from going to both boxes.


Your friend may just have lucked out and the cable installer just forgot to place the filter on his line.

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Comment heard from a Klingon programmer.

"Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak"

[neveryona]

so if that were the case, would that mean I could get a decoder and it would fix it up?

[Ghost_Hacker]

No, if there is a filter than the signal is just not getting into your house. A decoder would only work if you already have a cable TV 'signal' coming in from somewhere.

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Comment heard from a Klingon programmer.

"Debugging? Klingons do not debug. Our software does not coddle the weak"

[neveryona]

That's a bummer. I guess that is what I get for trying to cheat the "SYSTEM." Thanks for the prompt rely at any rate.

[mjc]

Also some cable companies offer both, my one sister could get both (tv and cable internet) with one connection. So either he lucked out or was getting both and didn't realize it until he tried.

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mjc
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Do Vulcans even have to debug?

[buck52]

neveryona
My cable tv and internet access comes in thru the same cable but as GH
says it is filtered or switched out on the pole at the street and I pay separately for them. I do have a splitter in the line going to the modem and a tv card in my computer so I can watch tv on the computer. Neat fun but useless seeing there's a tv in the same room. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

buck

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just hav'n fun

[kayden azagthoth]

A guy I knew told me that he split the cable to his cable modem to his television and he was able to get cable for free. Since I wanted cable internet and didn't have cable tv, I thought it would be the ideal "two for one" deal.

The cable installer asked me if I was getting cable as well as cable internet when he was hooking me up. I told him I was only getting internet. He said, "okay" and told me he would have to put what he called a trap on the line. I assume he put it somewhere outside on the building. I was so miffed for a while that I considered searching for this 'trap' and ripping it off the line. But I don't know if a trap is something you can see, or something that's removed from the cable line.

Either way, I learned that if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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And all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

-Pink Floyd

[This message has been edited by kayden azagthoth (edited 04-01-2001).]