Superhub cabling question

loopyfilms · 13-07-2015, 23:24

At the moment I have one cable from the brown junction box outside my house, coming in through the wall to a white wall box and another cable from that goes to my Tivo. There's another cable from the brown junction box that comes round the house and through the wall to my Superhub.
I'm having an extension built and wondered if I could just plug the superhub cable into the white box or even the Tivo, so it's coming off the same feed from the brown box outside the house. And if I do that will it affect speeds or signal in any way? It would be good to lose the 2nd cable that comes round the back of the house....
Sorry for lengthy explanation - I don't know the relevant tech terms.
Thanks for any advice.
Nigel

General Maximus · 13-07-2015, 23:42

yes you can, you just need a splitter

loopyfilms · 14-07-2015, 00:00

So it won't result in less bandwidth or weaken the signal using a splitter instead of using the two separate outputs on the outside box?
Could I even use a splitter at the Tivo box end?
Thanks

General Maximus · 14-07-2015, 09:34

it doesn't affect your bandwidth but your power levels do get affected (can't remember how) and if they are borderline to start off with it can take them out of spec which can affect performance. If they are optimum you will be ok.

General Maximus · 14-07-2015, 19:04

back, I was pushed for time this morning. If you mean can you use a splitter at the end of the cable going into the TiVo so you now have one connector for TiVo and one for shub, yes you can.

loopyfilms · 14-07-2015, 19:06

Thanks again

Is there a diagnostic tool in the superhub settings I can use to check the power with both settings?

General Maximus · 14-07-2015, 19:55

click this link and scroll down to the fifth post. In your case you want to be looking at the power levels in the downstream and upstream tab. You can use the ones in the screen dumps as a guide because they are pretty much perfect. I do believe that when you put the splitter on you'll see the power go down so it might go from something like +1 to -2. There might be a corresponding increase it power on the upstream and it might go from +45 to +50. In both cases both changes are within acceptable limits.

If you fancy playing around to see what difference it makes you can take a look at the levels now, then with the splitter at the two locations you was thinking of and see how much of a difference it makes. It will be handy to know because if one of them doesn't work, you know what you can fall back to.

As an fyi, if your shub is in router mode you want to go http://192.168.0.1 and not 100.1

loopyfilms · 14-07-2015, 20:04

Nice one General _ i'll check it out
Thanks

General Maximus · 14-07-2015, 20:23

np dude