<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Stephen Villano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen.p.villano@gmail.com" target="_blank">stephen.p.villano@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">One 1:3 splitter. Otherwise, you drop at least 4db on the second<br>
splitter, plus its loss of at least 4db.<br>
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On 8/5/15, Jerome Yuzyk <<a href="mailto:jerome@supernet.ab.ca">jerome@supernet.ab.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> My new MythTV box will have 2 PVR-500s, or so I hope. I will then need to<br>
> split the coax from my cable provider into 3 feeds: 1 for my cablemodem and<br>
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> 2 for the 500s.<br>
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> Is it better for me to use 1 1:3 splitter or 2 1:2 splitters?<br>
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MythTV Forums: <a href="https://forum.mythtv.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>By "cable modem" do you mean internet, if so normal practice as I've seen it is to split once and feed the modem (to maximize internet speed) then split as necessary for TV signals.</div></div><br></div></div>