Hi All,
A technical question regarding connecting the second TV.
Currently I have a 2-way splitter (just near the ONT) and 2 relatively long pieces of coax cable going from the splitter to two remote rooms where we have a router and the main TV. And we need to connect another TV in the 3d room, which is relatively close to the room where we currently have a router.
Here is what we can do:
A. Replace a 2-way splitter with the 3-way one and add a long (50-feet) piece of cable from the splitter to the new TV outlet.
B. As the new TV is in the room that is next to a room with the router:
-- Pull the cable - that is currently goes to the router - out of the outlet (from inside the outlet)
-- Connect an additional 2-way splitter to the cable
-- put a short (6-feet) piece of cable to connect the new splitter back to the router outlet
-- put a medium (25-feet) piece of cable to connect the new splitter to the new TV outlet
Mathematically / theoretically (in terms of signal loss) either one unbalanced 3-way splitter or 2 consecutive 2 way splitter should be the same.
(A) looks a bit neater, but it means there is another long cable that goes through the entire house from the garage (ONT) to a remote room.
With the (B) we do a kind of piggyback ride on the existing cable, but there will be a lot of pieces / connections between the ONT and the new TV
Are there any ideas what would be better (A - another long cable) or (B - reusing the existing cables but adding a splitter and more pieces of cable)?
Thank you in advance.