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Posted at 1:29 PM on Wednesday 12/24/08 by
Ben
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Buy.com has the Motorola Signal Booster for $38 with free shipping. It purports to amplify your signal strength by up to a factor of 32x, improving reception and strength of your broadband service. [BizRate]
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    mdheinzer - Posted 1:31 pm PST 12/24/08 (630 Posts)  Report Spam

    unless you have 14 tvs you shouldn't need one of these. If you think you need a higher signal call your cable company and have them come out and check it.

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    hairy_testicles - Posted 1:42 pm PST 12/24/08 (119 Posts)  Report Spam

    if you have '14' tvs, then you actually are better off, getting a amplified splitter, instead of just a booster

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    kliving - Posted 1:49 pm PST 12/24/08 (229 Posts)  Report Spam

    ripoff

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    masochrist - Posted 1:56 pm PST 12/24/08 (380 Posts)  Report Spam

    Use it with your antenna. The one on the roof, I mean.

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    N_Jay - Posted 2:36 pm PST 12/24/08 (220 Posts)  Report Spam

    #1, what if you have 14 jacks (and the splittrs to drive them?

    #2, Why, what woudl be teh difference?

    3# Why?

    #4 Maybe, if you are in a rural area.

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    jackbauer - Posted 2:42 pm PST 12/24/08 (57 Posts)  Report Spam

    #5 Please learn to spell correctly.

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    asianx13oy - Posted 3:52 pm PST 12/24/08 (407 Posts)  Report Spam

    #6 ur a homo

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    Mass - Posted 3:53 pm PST 12/24/08 (78 Posts)  Report Spam

    watch out if you have comcast and old lines in your house you can do whats called "bleeding" so you should find out fromc comcast if they do signal checking in your area if you live by an airport I know for a fact all cable companies have to check and if they get over 10db from your house you get flagged if its not fixed by next drive by you get tagged (meaning they put a signal decreaser on your line so basically your back down to where you were)

    I do use this one and I don't get the bleed or leak I got from the radioshack HD one.

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    Sebenza - Posted 4:54 pm PST 12/24/08 (369 Posts)  Report Spam

    rip off

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    Solow - Posted 5:58 pm PST 12/24/08 (3070 Posts)  Report Spam

    #8 Interesting.

    I used mine for about 3 months and recently I'm having router and network connection issues. Unplugging/plugging this device cures the issue sometimes. I'm removing it altogether.

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    RiskFree - Posted 7:23 pm PST 12/24/08 (138 Posts)  Report Spam

    This one works for me. Without it, the signals are very weak.

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    phamtq777 - Posted 7:32 pm PST 12/24/08 (96 Posts)  Report Spam

    Definitely a rip off. Used it for a bout a week and ran some test on the signal the strength and only found about 7% gain. Absolutely useless.

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    VideoJunkie - Posted 8:28 pm PST 12/24/08 (83 Posts)  Report Spam

    Waste of money. Did nothing for me but create more line noise

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    pcspecialist - Posted 8:38 pm PST 12/24/08 (277 Posts)  Report Spam

    Most cable modems are capable of working with weak signals and have no need for boosting. Boosting introduces additional noise which is bad. Why introduce additional noise when your cable modem is fine with the signal strength it receives sans a booster?

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    togwotee - Posted 10:01 pm PST 12/24/08 (112 Posts)  Report Spam

    This worked well for us. TV signals were snowy, but now our much improved. We have DSL, we just use it for TV only.

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    popnwave - Posted 6:44 am PST 12/25/08 (163 Posts)  Report Spam

    #14 - correct... if people are having cable internet issues a booster can just add to the problem. your cable company needs to make sure the levels are good from your tap to your modem.

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    rjsaint - Posted 7:35 am PST 12/25/08 (131 Posts)  Report Spam

    Time Warner installed a booster with the service...doesn't every cable company do this?

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    fxp - Posted 11:37 am PST 12/25/08 (1036 Posts)  Report Spam

    Isn't this thing pricey? I have an old Radio Shack one, bigger and a lot cheaper.

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    whatatay - Posted 3:31 am PST 12/26/08 (1901 Posts)  Report Spam

    This does work.

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    morphiend - Posted 11:41 am PST 12/26/08 (107 Posts)  Report Spam

    Signal boosters are great, especially with an antenna and trying to receive ATSC (over-the-air digital).

    I use a similar one for my antenna, which is mounted inside my attic instead of on my roof. Without the amplifier, I can't view some stations. It also works well, since I split the output from the antenna to multiple TVs in the house.

    Highly recommended for those looking for 'better' OTA digital reception.

    *PLEASE NOTE* These do not make signals appear out of nowhere. They only amplify what's there. So if you can receive the signal, but its weak, this may aid in the reception.

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