How to Move TV Cable From Room to Room
- 1). Route cable "home run" style to each room. Calculate a cable route from your main cable box to each room where you want cable. Install cable jacks in the rooms if they don't yet exist. Install a splitter in the cable box that will accommodate all the new lines you will run. Route the cable to each room, either inside the home or from the outside in.
- 2). Route cable "loop through" style to each room. Instead of running cable from the cable box to each new cable jack, run cable from an already-functional cable jack to the next room. Install a splitter at the first cable jack. Then, using a fish tape, fish the cable through the wall to the next room's cable jack. Repeat for each additional room.
- 3). Install a wireless cable TV extender. You can find one at electronics outlets or computer component stores. The extender transmits the digital and analog signal from one TV to other TVs that receive digital and analog signals. The downside, though, is that the connected TVs can only display the digital channel displayed on the primary TV. If analog is still transmitted in your area, the connected TVs could display either the primary digital channel or tune to a different analog channel.
- 4). Install a SlingBox. If you have a home computer network, the SlingBox can, after connected to your cable TV, share cable TV over your home computer network and over the Internet. If you have wireless Internet in the home, a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop could receive cable TV in another room where there is a wireless connection.
- 5). Install a wireless high-definition interface unit. Based on Wi-Fi technology, a wireless HDI unit can penetrate walls and floors. It transmits video and audio from one source to any television that has a compatible receiver. With this technology, cable can reach a TV in any room of your house in the same way wireless Internet signal reaches a laptop.
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