TV Splitter or not

[countyblue]

Hi all,

I have 2 Eurovox's, one downstairs and one upstairs. The one upstairs is fine, TV splitter attached not a problem. The one downstairs is the one thats annoying me.

When the TV splitter is connected, the vast majority of the channels are blocky and unwatchable. When the cable connection is directly attached to the Eurovox, the picture is perfect on every channel.

I've decided to leave the cable connection directly attached to the Eurovox as even if my box is blocked/killed somehow (can a cable connection actually do this!?) I'll be in the same position as I am when the TV splitter is connected.

Just wanted some advice really, I've checked the TV splitter, that is fine, the cable wire is fine it's just when its attched to the TV splitter that the problems arise.

Any help would be really appreciated as to whether or not having the cable connection directly attached to the Eurovox could kill my box.

[telecom69]

my thoughts on this (for what they are worth)are that its a signal problem to the downstairs box and when you plug in that splitter it takes the signal strength down enough to cause the problem...plugging the cable feed directly into the Eurovox will cause no harm whatsoever,so no need to worry about that....I dont know if you have a subscription with Virgin or not,and if not,anything coming down the cable feed is in the lap of the Gods so to speak,so if its only just borderline to begin with,anything plugged into it will drop it just enough to cause you a problem,even if its only a splitter ...if this is the case a signal booster will cure your problem...

As an afterthought Im wondering why you are fitting the splitter on the downstairs box in the first place ? is it for a Virgin set top box?

[countyblue]

Originally Posted by telecom69

my thoughts on this (for what they are worth)are that its a signal problem to the downstairs box and when you plug in that splitter it takes the signal strength down enough to cause the problem...plugging the cable feed directly into the Eurovox will cause no harm whatsoever,so no need to worry about that....I dont know if you have a subscription with Virgin or not,and if not,anything coming down the cable feed is in the lap of the Gods so to speak,so if its only just borderline to begin with,anything plugged into it will drop it just enough to cause you a problem,even if its only a splitter ...if this is the case a signal booster will cure your problem...

As an afterthought Im wondering why you are fitting the splitter on the downstairs box in the first place ? is it for a Virgin set top box?

Yes, I've 2 virgin cable boxes. one upstairs, one downstairs.

[mike135]

If you've got 2 virgin boxes ring virgin up and get them to sort it. I solved a problem like this on mine by fitting one of those yellow cable tv amplifier I bought off flebay. I fitted it before the splitter, the box upstares was on a longer cable run and would work without the splitter, but not properly with it.