FIOS TV signal booster?

rokosz1

Its been my plan for some time to attach up to 5 tvs on that single coax coming out of the Verizon box near my panel.

I made the jump to a powered booster. It replaced the simple little 1:2 splitter. And the booster seemed to work fine:

all three tvs had clean pictures.

But, alas, the powered splitter didn't have all the "features" required. Apparently, tho' the amp was touted as handling two-way communication I found (on another post in these forums) that most amps only allow traditional 2-way not the Fios MoCA frequency-way.

The offending device is a ELECTROLINE EDA-FT08300 . Now maybe there's something else happening here but with this device in-line I can't get to VOD. DVR and channel surfing is fine.

Does anyone know if this device is really for crap when it comes to FIOS?

I came across the Motorola BDA-S4 4-port Cable HDTV 12x Booster No blurb I can find for it says its compatible with MoCA.

Any thoughts? Suggestions? Do I have to buy a number of plain old splitters and just hope the signal remains strong enough? I'm looking at runs of about 80-95 feet. The first split is at about 60ft.

thanks.

Keyboards

What you have found out is that most booster amplifiers that are called "bi-directional" are for standard cable purposes where their return channel is below 50 MHz. Because FiOS uses MoCA it is an actively driven signal at 900 MHz to 1.1 GHz where these booster amps are not bi-directional.

Unless you can find an amplifier that list itself as MoCA compatable you are out of luck.

As an aside, the signal out of the ONT (the thing that the coax comes from) much stronger than a normal cable signal and is more than strong enough to drive an 8-way splitter so you can connect your 5 TVs and just make sure you put terminators on the unused ports.