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Boosting Analogue cable TV signale

  • 25-04-2009 9:24pm
    #1
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭


    Is there anyway to boost an analogue signal. We've got a problem here, whereby quite frankly, the cable TV signal coming into the house is crap. It's pretty much the same for most of the homes in our area. IIRC, someone was told by NTL that they didn't have a good enough signal for digital TV even. It's been like that since the flooding last August.

    I barely receive some channels that should normally be available. (Discovery and BBC2 are the most prominent).

    We've tried using a specific signal booster, but it gave up the ghost after a few weeks, and we had to go back to the previous set up. Signal was also still pretty fuzzy. It boosted the noise as well.

    Some of the Cabling in the house is pretty old... at least 25 years at this stage... but a good chunk of that runs through the walls, so can't really be ripped out and replaced. It shouldn't have been disturbed much where it is anyway, so I doubt it's broken or degraded itself.

    I'm stumped at this stage. and it's a real pain not being able to watch Top Gear on BBC 2. :P


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  • #2
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You can't boost it if it is already bad. Call UPC.

    Besides you need special high power amplifier due to the number of channels. An ordinary TV amp only handles a 1/10th as many channels as Cable.

    P.S. don't cross post.


  • #3
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I originally posted it here, but thought it was in the wrong forum, so tried to delete it. Then somebody moved it back here.

    Thanks anyway, I'll see what they say about it.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    You can pm us (ICDG, Byte, Watty) or click on "report post " /!\ and type in a comment about what needs fixed about the post. It's not really just for "bad" posts. :)


  • #5
    Keith186
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭Keith186


    Dartz wrote: »
    Is there anyway to boost an analogue signal. We've got a problem here, whereby quite frankly, the cable TV signal coming into the house is crap. It's pretty much the same for most of the homes in our area. IIRC, someone was told by NTL that they didn't have a good enough signal for digital TV even. It's been like that since the flooding last August.

    I've the same problem too on my analogue set up. BBC2 & TG4 usually are the worst but sometimes all them are really bad. It got really bad after heavy rain too & floods years ago.

    (After I got rid of Sky digital I was bothered with it) I simply complained that it was unwatchable and that I wasn't getting the service I was paying for. They called out and re-installed the point. It didn't fix it so kept complaining and the fourth or fifth time they were out it was working ok (only on the actual NTL point they installed, not the rest).

    They had to dig up all the cables & relay them all the way from my house to probably about 50/70 metres away somewhere else in the estate. The guy even said that the cables were in a sorry state from the floods/heavy rain.


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