Anybody know anything about cable wiring/installations?

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If so please let me know, they sent me a self install kit but I cant figure this sh1t out, I had direct tv but now i got comcast...Help please
 

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i know that, i need more help, like somebody who really knows about it or does it in real life

:krs: im being an a$$hole but I know what im doing. You have existing connections in your house right? (like ports for the coax cables?)
 

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If so please let me know, they sent me a self install kit but I cant figure this sh1t out, I had direct tv but now i got comcast...Help please

you can't install Comcast on a conversion from Direct TV on your own. among other things you're gonna need a signal level meter to find out if you have enough signal on your lines and to plug the drop up at the tap then tone out your lines and hook the feed line up to a splitter. you're gonna need to have a service tech install it for you.

if you're already active on Comcast that's different. if you can find the line coming into your house you can put it on the input of a cable splitter and try to hook up the lines off the Direct TV splitter to the cable one. the signal still needs to be in a certain range if you have a digital box or else its gonna get tiling and artifacts or worse.
 
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you can't install Comcast on a conversion from Direct TV on your own. among other things you're gonna need a signal level meter to find out if you have enough signal on your lines and to plug the drop up at the tap then tone out your lines and hook the feed line up to a splitter. you're gonna need to have a service tech install it for you.

if you're already active on Comcast that's different. if you can find the line coming into your house you can put it on the input of a cable splitter and try to hook up the lines off the Direct TV splitter to the cable one. the signal still needs to be in a certain range if you have a digital box or else its gonna get tiling and artifacts or worse.

this is what i tried i think, and yes i ionly had direct tv for tv, internet was with comcast


the comcast currently only works in one room, so i went outside


u can see the comcast cable that comes from the ground, and the the cables that come fro the dish on the roof of the garage, the satellite cables went into a splitter befroe it went into the house, so instead of putting the direct tv in the input , i took the pre existing comcast wire and put it into the input...

shoudnt this bring sevice through my whole house??? i cant get anything to work this way


there is more cabling in the attic.....would i need to go up there and do what u suggested, or do i do it from outside??
 

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this is what i tried i think, and yes i ionly had direct tv for tv, internet was with comcast


the comcast currently only works in one room, so i went outside


u can see the comcast cable that comes from the ground, and the the cables that come fro the dish on the roof of the garage, the satellite cables went into a splitter befroe it went into the house, so instead of putting the direct tv in the input , i took the pre existing comcast wire and put it into the input...

shoudnt this bring sevice through my whole house??? i cant get anything to work this way


there is more cabling in the attic.....would i need to go up there and do what u suggested, or do i do it from outside??
can't use a satellite splitter for cable. you need a actual cable splitter. you have to look at the satellite splits and figure out which ones are the outputs to TVs and put them on the cable splitter. it probably says on the splitter which are outputs.

the cables in the attic should be irrelevant. where ever the dish lines are split at is where you have to take those lines. it may also be possible that the dish installer didn't home run all the lines back to a single source. sometimes on the back of a satellite box there's a split to feed a second TV and they have those remotes that can control the box from another room.

if every TV that had satellite had a box on it then its probably home ran back to what you saw outside.
 
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can't use a satellite splitter for cable. you need a actual cable splitter. you have to look at the satellite splits and figure out which ones are the outputs to TVs and put them on the cable splitter. it probably says on the splitter which are outputs.

the cables in the attic should be irrelevant. where ever the dish lines are split at is where you have to take those lines. it may also be possible that the dish installer didn't home run all the lines back to a single source. sometimes on the back of a satellite box there's a split to feed a second TV and they have those remotes that can control the box from another room.

if every TV that had satellite had a box on it then its probably home ran back to what you saw outside.

im done for tonight... if i take a picture of what i see outside could kind point me inte right direction tomorrow breh...uve been helpful so far
 
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