Motorola Signal Booster 484095-001-00 Bi-Directional RF Amplifier
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Customer Review: Best Booster on the Market
Summary: 5 Stars
Prior to purchasing the Motorola amp, I purchased and installed the TERK AMP-15, which worked very well (until the cable company did a disconnect recently and apparently short-circuited the input). Upon reconnecting my cable service, the cable-tv tech noted that my TERK AMP-15 was no longer working. Rather than just order another TERK, I decided to check the alternatives. Checking the specs, I noticed the Motorola Signal Booster is a similar product, however the specs are much better (2.5 dB max Noise Figure vs. 3.5 dB max for the TERK) and the Motorola uses the most advanced technology available (Gallium Arsenide). Also, the Motorola amp includes a 6kV surge resistant design (meets the 6kV IEEE C62.41-1991 and 1 kV Combination Wave surge for all ports). I did not find surge protection mentioned in the TERK spec. Another difference is the Motorola provides a slightly wider bandwidth (52-1000 MHz) and operates at lower dc voltage (12VDC). These differences indicate a highly refined circuit design, so I expect a much more durable, worry-free product. Nice going Motorola! Links to Motorola's web page for complete consumer (1) and professional (2) specification details:
(1) http://broadband.motorola.com/consumers/products/signal_booster/
(2) http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/productdetail.asp?image=large&productID=207
Customer Review: no complaints once I moved the cable company's filter
Summary: 4 Stars
Works great, I think. Let me explain. When we switched from DSL to cable modem last year, the cable guy said we had to put the cable modem in the basement where the cable comes into the house. Since I don't have catv cable throughout the house, I had to put my wireless router down there as well, and our wireless coverage suffered.
So I bought this amplifier and move the cable modem upstairs, no luck. I have numerouse splitters and multiple TVs so I picked one that I knew came off the first splitter and moved it there. Still no luck. After saying a few bad words, I noticed that the cable guy had put something off of the first splitter that I assume is some sort of noise filter to keep return signals from feeding back into the cable modem. (If one of you techies out there is laughing at my ignorance, feel free to chime in.) Anyway, I removed this "thing" that's a couple inches long and Voila!, everything works great. The picture on one of our TVs (a plasma) is noticeably better for certain channels that used to be a little fuzzy, and my cable modem is working a couple splits downstream where I want to put my wireless modem. How much did this amplifier really help? Beats me. Maybe it would have worked "good enough" if I would have just removed the filter. But I'm happy. Maybe this will save someone a bit of frustration.
Customer Review: Excellent Product!
Summary: 5 Stars
I live in an older apartment building that was basically retrofitted with cable lines by the owner. The cable lines run through the apartment along the walls and under the carpet, connected together with multiple splitters. Understandably this sometimes results in weak signals at the end points.
I bought an EyeTV hybrid tuner to hook up to my Mac Mini media server which connects to my HDTV. When initially hooking the cable line up to the tuner, none of my basic cable stations came through and only a few QAM stations (free HD channels that come through your cable line, equivalent to over the air HD) were found. This was strange, especially since I got more channels when the cable was hooked directly to my TV, although the picture quality was never that good. I needed to be able to get all the channels through the EyeTV tuner so I could use it as a DVR as well. After reading about this product, I decided to give it a try. I hooked the cable up to the signal booster and then used the cable that came with the signal booster to hook it up to the EyeTV.
The results were amazing. All my basic cable stations now come through crystal clear, and I get dozens of QAM channels as well. I've never reviewed a product on Amazon before but felt compelled after the great experience I had with this product.
Customer Review: Saved My Living Room
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought a new home and have cable in every room. All the signals were fine except in the main living area. The reception was terrible, snowy, with lots of image lag and broken audio (annoying to the point of unwatchable).The cable company came out twice and the builder looked at things. I tried changing cables, HDMI cables, cable converter box. Nothing worked. Cable company said cable inside the wall (behind sheetrock and solid wood) probably had nail or staple in it somewhere along course from "smart box". Builder hemmed and hawed. The destruction and hassle of tearing out the wall, etc seemed like a bad option. I found this on Amazon and hooked it up between wall cable and converter box.
WOW! My probelem was solved. The regular analog as well as the HD channels all come in crystal clear now with great audio! The cable TV picture quality on my 1080p rivals that of a DVD. Got best audio result with HDMI from converter box out to TV.
This product saved me a lot of construction hassles and has brought HD TV back into my family room. Best money I've ever spent on an ancillary electronic device. I was hesitant at first b/c some reviews said the booster just amplified noisy bad signals and didn't improve them. It cleared up my poor signal problem brilliantly.
This product works!!!
Customer Review: Resolution to lost signal problems.
Summary: 5 Stars
This product has helped me solve many months of signal problems. If you are a home owner and planning to cable the house or already cabled. The cable line coming into the house can be split through out the house. The problem here is the splitting device also splits the signal power. If the signal power is 10 and it split between two rooms. The each room will have 5 power signals. The power is divided and signal strength is cut in half. If by chance you have more then one splitter between the walls. The cable guy can tell you how many signal lost at different location in the house. This is only if you didn't do the cabling and have no knowledge many splitters. IMPORTANT!!! If we are paying so much money for cable tv. Why not have the cable tv company boost the signal or provide a device like this for us. I didn't have time to pursue this issue. So I solved my own problem. O.K enough Ranting. Once you have this device most people think they know were to put it. Well its not plug in to the line the cable tv provided. Its between or after those splitters in the house. If you have no splitters!! Have you cable tv resolve that problem. O.K O.K. The Motorola signal booster does works very well. I can see the big difference in tv or cable internet. I would rate this product a 10 if the scale is from 1 to 10.