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At my house, I could reliably use a cable modem, OR watch TV. However, if I put in even a single splitter, my cable modem would become unreliable. This box solved that problem perfectly. I did have enough signal coming in to the house to amplify, so this little box simply strengthened everything up a bit before splitting it. This also improved reception on a couple of problem TV channels. This box will not perform miracles and magically turn a bad signal into a good one. However, if your signal is borderline, this will make a world of difference.

I bought this with some caution, because I have been very unhappy with other products I have tried in hopes of boosting my cable tv quality. This product was simple to install and the results were instant. I have splitters all over the place in my basemnent and I don't see any degradation of the signal at all anymore. Highly recommended!

This amplifier is just what i needed.. i just bought a Samsung t260hd... my HDTV already had a built in HDTV tuner so i can get hd channels through my cable... however the HD channels kept flickering off and on and sometimes didn't receive them at all. This seemed to fix the problem because I've been using it for a couple of hours now and no problems at all. This amp also discovered some very important HD channels I've been missing the last couple of months. Buy this if u have a HDTV and using a splitter for other televisions.

I find this product works well for what it was intended for. When I used an ordinary splitter to connect my cable to both modem and TV, neither of them worked. With this I could get modem and TV functional and I could work on internet and watch TV also. I do not know whether the internet speed has increased (even though I find some improvement). May be I have to use another computer to test this aspect. Good Product.

Long story short: all seemed well going into the transition. I had a large UHF/VHF aerial antenna good enough to pick up a multitude of signals and a Zenith DT900 converter box that served me well for months before June 12th hit. Then the transition happened and suddenly several TVs that had had no issues before either suffered reception problems or lost stations entirely. Worse yet, I didn't seem to be gaining any new channels that I should have gotten when a local PBS station turned the power up. I scanned and rescanned countless times as advised, but nothing really improved.

At first I blamed the transition for the new problems, but something told me that they couldn't have been post-transition related, since the brand new HDTV set was suffering worse problems than the beat up, old analog from 1987. So I investigated and sure enough, the problems seemed to be due to an ancient 4-way splitter. Apparently, it'd done a good enough job before the transition, but was no longer up to snuff. It was time for a splitter, but not just any splitter-- an amplified one.

I did some research looking into my options, as well as asked questions around several forums. I was recommended a few well reviewed models, but frankly, they were too expensive. So being the shameless cheapskate, I went with this model. I was skeptical at first, but to my surprise, it worked like a charm. All I had to do was hook up the antenna to the "in" port, hook up the 4 TV sets to the "out" ports, then hook the amplifier to the adapter using a cable to power it up, and voila! Not only did crystal clear reception return to all 4 sets, I was finally able to pick up the additional channels I had missed initially post-transition.

So needless to say, I recommend this product immensely for those who are having reception problems splitting an antenna amongst several TVs. However, I would like to give a caveat for potential buyers. This amplifier is not a magic tool to boost the strength of an already weak signal, so don't buy it expecting miracles. If you do, you're bound to be disappointed. Othwerwise, if you do have a strong enough signal, you should be fine.