Monster Cable TGHZ-4RF 2 Gigahertz 4-Way Low-Loss RF Splitters for TV & Satellite – Customer Reviews
Degraded quality, no modem connection
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I had looked at all the other reviews on this page and I had high hopes that it would replace my 4-way cable amplifier so when the power goes out (our power goes out once, sometimes twice around here per week!) I would have a battery backup and an internet connection to submit this since my VoIP requires Cable. I was wrong. I had the Monster splitter come in today and plugged it in. All of the sudden the coax-hooked-up TV in my bedroom was very, very fuzzy... the other big-screen TV downstairs and the TV in the other bedroom was messing up the picture and the cable modem couldn't even connect because of this. I went back to the cable amplifer and everything was back to normal. Clear pictures on all three TV's, and cable modem finds a connection. And I've hooked it up tightly-- according to Comcast, it's the Monster splitter so I'm going to return it immediately. My advice is if you don't have a STRONG cable connection, don't use this splitter at all, because you'll just get a fuzzy & bad connection with it.
8/2/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Does a great job: signal is much clearer
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I had been using a radio shack splitter and amplifier for years (the). It did a good job, but recently began to fail after many years of service.
I replaced it with the Monster Cable splitter.However, the splitter is not a signal booster, so I also added a.
This combination made reception much better right away. (Note: the Motorola signal booster has higher amplification than the Radio Shack amplifier.) When the signal booster was coupled with the Monster Cable splitter, reception was great - better than it had ever been. I now receive channels clearly that were always fuzzy with horizontal or vertical bands in the past.6/11/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Good Price for Good Product
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I switched from a 3-Way radio shack splitter to the 4-way Monster Splitter and even though the signal is now split 1 extra time, the picture has improved on all TV's and the high speed internet speed has improved also. I though I was going to need an amplifier, but there was no need...Hope this helped
2/25/2006 12:00 AM | Rating:
Best Splitter on the Market
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I am using three of the Monster 2GHz splitters where the first (1:3) splitter input is connected to a Motorola Signal Booster (15 dB low noise amp) output.Two of the three splitter outputs are connected into Monster 2GHz 1:4 splitters, for a total of 8 outputs for cable runs to various locations throughout the house.The 3rd output (of the first 1:3 splitter) is reserved for the new Verizon FiOS TV data interface, i.e., a Motorola Network Interface Module 100 (aka NIM 100) providing data communications via the MoCA (Multimedia Over Coax Alliance) standard interface which communicates with the Motorola Set Top Boxes.Since the MoCA standard uses the higher frequencies, from 900MHz-1.5GHz, it is ideal to use the 2GHz bandwidth splitters, to ensure low loss for data transmission across all splitters and cable runs.Also, the Monster splitters pass the signals in the reverse direction, so these work well with Cable Modems, which operate at the lower end of the bandwidth.Bottom line, the Monster 2GHz splitters are the best on the market.
For additional information about setting up cable TV splitters to support a Verizon FiOS TV configuration, refer to the following web site:
http://www.entropic.com/pages/technology.html12/26/2005 12:00 AM | Rating:
Just to clarify how splitters work and dB loss...
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The review below about the Adelphia splitter working better than this one is misinformed.All splitters cause signal loss of the split signal -- this is unavoidable (unless the splitter also has a powered amp).Typically this is approximately 3.5dB per split (for 1GHz or less, more above that).The Adelphia splitter was no doubt a 3-to-1 split: the incoming signal was split once and one of the split signals was split again.Thus one output is -3.5db and the other two are -7dB (2 x 3.5).What the Monster splitters do is split the input evenly across all outputs, which really only helps when there are 3 outputs resulting in a -5.7dB drop across all outputs instead of one -3 and two -7.The 2- and 4-way splitter outputs are the same as you'd get from Adelphia or otherwise (either split once or split twice).Clear as mud?
The extra bandwidth (up to 2GHz, most splitters are 900MHz or 1GHz) is another reason these splitters are preferrable to the cheapies.11/30/2005 12:00 AM | Rating: