Motorola Signal Booster 484095-001-00 Bi-Directional RF Amplifier
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Customer Review: Dynamite Signal/Picture on Analog and Digital Cable!! Just as reviewed!
Summary: 5 Stars
I just bought and installed one of these for analog and digital cable for use with Comcast cable TV.
The acquisition was prompted by forced addition of digital cable by Comcast to receive a few channels we watch. When the install tech came out to make it work (it didn't) we discovered an old low quality Radio Shack booster I had installed 17 years ago. He cut it out of the line, and digital worked fine on the one set but analog on the other four was really awful.
We have five TV's located around the house fed by a signal splitter: one a new digital cable box on one set... and analog on the other four for now.
I searched for a booster here on Amazon, read all the amazing reviews of this product, ordered it on a Tuesday, it arrived Friday, I set it up on Sunday, today, and the picture quality everywhere: analog and digital.... is better than I have had for 20 years!!!
I installed it at the termination block, just inside the ground link, ran an extension cord 6 feet to a receptacle, and WHamo... Best TV ever. I I could not be happier with the product or Amazon.
Customer Review: Getting more stations with this amplifier
Summary: 5 Stars
I had purchased a Terk HD-TVS Slim-Profile Outdoor HDTV Antenna from Amazon. Instead of mounting it outdoor, I have decided to mount it inside the garage so I can connect to the cable box to link to all my TV's. From websites on antenna, I learned to point the antenna to 325 degrees toward the transmitting tower. This location in the garage is unfortunately the farthest corner of the house from the tower. My house is about 40 miles from the broadcasting towers, so the signal is already weak. I got quite a few channels, but missing Channel 7, 9, 11, 13. From the TV's signal strength meter, I was getting reasonable strength but lousy signal quality.
Since installing the Motorola Signal Booster Bi-Directional RF Amplifier, I have no problem receiving about 90% of the stations listed as available, but still couldn't get channel 11. We have an indoor amplied antenna that I could manage to get channel 11, but it is located at the corner of the house closest to the direction of radio tower. So, I felt this Motorola signal booster had done its job. Can't amplify noise and expect good signal out of it.
Customer Review: Perfect fix for my signal issue!
Summary: 5 Stars
I upgraded the cable system in my house and ended up with too many splitters (trying to achieve the closest thing I could get to a "television in every room"). The farthest downstream splits lost too much dB for a clean picture without artifacts or periodic random pixelization. The Motorola signal amp cured my issue immediately. I placed it near the entry of the signal to the house and amped one of the first splits (one branch of an initial 4-way). That amped signal went downstream of the Motorola to one full digital signal for a cable box/tv installation over 100 feet away, and to another branch that feeds three additional televisions in 3 different bedrooms. Even the last tv's after the last split at the end of the line had crisp, stable pictures and sound. I had used a lower frequency analog signal amp before, and of course it was useless. This Motorola was surprisingly easy to install. Now everyone has HD t.v., and a t.v. in the garage/man-cave too. The device is so good I should have bought the multi-way Motorola splitter/booster model for future expansion!Customer Review: WOW This Thing Really Works
Summary: 5 Stars
The cable TV signal in my house was progressively getting worse. Some of the cable channels were almost unviewable. Several times over the years I had the cable company come over and measure the signal. I was always told that the signal on the high end coming in was weak. We have 5 TV's in the house along with my cable modem. I had an old amplifier/signal router on the circuit that was not doing much good, so I decided to purchase this amplifier after doing some researching on the net. I installed it on the input to the house and immediately notice a HUGE difference in my TV reception. Channels that had been fuzzy before were now very sharp. I originally left the old amplifier in the circuit because I was strapped for time when I first installed the Motorola. When I came back and removed the old amplifier, I noticed that the clarity of the channels was better with it, so I left it alone. This device is simple to install and works fantastic, at least for my situation. I wish the so called "experts" at the cable TV company would have told me about this amplifier.Customer Review: Good for digital/HDTV antenna in attic with cable splitting through rest of house
Summary: 5 Stars
Got this to combat signal degradation from my antenna attic through splitters to a couple of rooms two stories below. Works well, boosts to maintain the signal through a splitter or two and 100+ feet of cable quality coax.
I measured my signal strength pre-boost and post-boost (on a scale of 0-100, using a DTV-to-analog converter) and got a 25% signal strength boost average across all my channels after the splitters and longest coax run, to bring it *close to* about the same level if I was right at the antenna. Note that I don't think this will make a weak signal strong, but instead will keep a strong signal strong enough across splitters and 100+ lines of cable throughout the house that you will still maintain good signal. It also allowed me to get one channel that I could not otherwise get unless I was only 3 feet of coax away from the attic antenna.
Overall a good purchase for the price and works fine, as i'd hoped and expected - a good option for keeping an digital attic antenna from degrading as it runs through the whole house.