Maybe I should post this in something like an xfinity forum, but I'm guessing someone around here can explain this.
From the street, my house has a pair of coaxial cables (they are as a pair, side by side - the cross section of the dual cable is like a figure 8).
Then, in my house, I have two such pairs - one pair goes to my living room (which then has two F connectors) and one pair goes upstairs to the master bedroom (again with two F connectors).
So, where the street meets my house, basically I have the one pair from the street that must link to the two pairs inside the house.
First of all, why are they pairs of cable? I though cable TV (and now internet) all goes on one cable.
Second, anything clever I can do to take advantage of this?
I am dealing with this because I'm switching from AT&T U-verse to Comcast (internet only), so one thing I plan on doing is keeping U-verse on one cable line in the house while hooking Comcast up to the other, until I am satisfied that I got Comcast working.
Third, I assume if I wanted both the living room and upstairs hooked up to the cable line coming in I would just use a splitter, to attach the two internal lines with the single external cable line? (I realize that would be for TV, not internet...)
From the street, my house has a pair of coaxial cables (they are as a pair, side by side - the cross section of the dual cable is like a figure 8).
Then, in my house, I have two such pairs - one pair goes to my living room (which then has two F connectors) and one pair goes upstairs to the master bedroom (again with two F connectors).
So, where the street meets my house, basically I have the one pair from the street that must link to the two pairs inside the house.
First of all, why are they pairs of cable? I though cable TV (and now internet) all goes on one cable.
Second, anything clever I can do to take advantage of this?
I am dealing with this because I'm switching from AT&T U-verse to Comcast (internet only), so one thing I plan on doing is keeping U-verse on one cable line in the house while hooking Comcast up to the other, until I am satisfied that I got Comcast working.
Third, I assume if I wanted both the living room and upstairs hooked up to the cable line coming in I would just use a splitter, to attach the two internal lines with the single external cable line? (I realize that would be for TV, not internet...)
