Moving Internet to new room
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Posted by on April 23, 2006, 4:23 pm
Please log in for more thread options 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by riggor99999 on April 23, 2006, 6:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options 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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Posted by on April 24, 2006, 10:46 am
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I would not be using the TV off this cable outlet, just internet. I do not want to use wireless because sometimes I shut it down when my teenager is banned from the internet due to abuse/misuse of this priviledge. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Gary on April 23, 2006, 9:44 pm
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> 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. There is no big difference between a "TV" outlet and an "internet" outlet. Typically, the difference is fewer splitters between the outlet and the cable feed. In short, too many splitters are bad for cable modems. Just try the modem on the "new" outlet. If it works, you're done. If not, you can mess around with the splitters as another poster has suggested. -Gary | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Elmo P. Shagnasty on April 23, 2006, 10:49 pm
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> There is no big difference between a "TV" outlet and an "internet" outlet.
Technically there isn't; however, as was pointed out before, you don't want the cable modem hooked up to an amplified outlet. Given that some situations require the TV signal to be amplified, there is de facto a difference between a TV outlet and an internet outlet. In those situations, you can't simply move the cable modem to an outlet that used to service a TV and expect no problems. | |||||||||||||||||||
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> 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
>