Hi all, absolutely no idea where I should post this thread, so I'm trying under Home Theatre.
I'm in Canada, and have Shaw Cable.
There's a Arris Gateway HDPVR in the basement, which feeds 3 "portal" boxes at each tv.
4 Rooms currently have Coax cables running to wall outlets (the master bedroom, the two additional bedrooms & the living room).
The setup at the Gateway in the basement, Coax cable feeds a 3 way splitter that runs upstairs to feed the living room, master & one bedroom. I've been able to switch between the two bedrooms when we moved the set up (found which cable fed bedroom #1, disconnected & connect the spare wire - which was feeding bedroom #2).
Basement: Gateway HDPVR & Spare TV (no coax cable run currently.
Main Floor: Master, Bedroom #1 & Living Room (all coax cables/wall outlets/connected to gateway splitter) & Bedroom #2 (coax cable, but not connected to splitter)
Our basement is undeveloped, but we do have a TV set up down there. I'm curious, if I found a 4-way splitter.....could I run an additional coax cable from the splitter to another portal (assuming I could find one online)? Would this simply work? Or am I missing something? Would Shaw need to "authorize" or activate something?
I guess at that point, do 5-way splitters exist? That way there would be cable feeding the spare bedroom also.
I'm in Canada, and have Shaw Cable.
There's a Arris Gateway HDPVR in the basement, which feeds 3 "portal" boxes at each tv.
4 Rooms currently have Coax cables running to wall outlets (the master bedroom, the two additional bedrooms & the living room).
The setup at the Gateway in the basement, Coax cable feeds a 3 way splitter that runs upstairs to feed the living room, master & one bedroom. I've been able to switch between the two bedrooms when we moved the set up (found which cable fed bedroom #1, disconnected & connect the spare wire - which was feeding bedroom #2).
Basement: Gateway HDPVR & Spare TV (no coax cable run currently.
Main Floor: Master, Bedroom #1 & Living Room (all coax cables/wall outlets/connected to gateway splitter) & Bedroom #2 (coax cable, but not connected to splitter)
Our basement is undeveloped, but we do have a TV set up down there. I'm curious, if I found a 4-way splitter.....could I run an additional coax cable from the splitter to another portal (assuming I could find one online)? Would this simply work? Or am I missing something? Would Shaw need to "authorize" or activate something?
I guess at that point, do 5-way splitters exist? That way there would be cable feeding the spare bedroom also.