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Posted at 6:54 AM on Monday 03/9/09 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. [Compare]
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    Solow - Posted 7:18 am PDT 03/9/09 (3070 Posts)  Report Spam

    This cooked my router and now serves as a desk ornament. There was no increase in speed or tv reception. If you are having trouble, your best best is to call the cable company and have them test the line and install their own booster for free.

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    popnwave - Posted 8:20 am PDT 03/9/09 (163 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not sure how it would cook a router but these are best left boosting signals for your analog/digital tvs signals and not your cable modems.

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    techsupport - Posted 9:50 am PDT 03/9/09 (5340 Posts)  Report Spam

    Works pretty well for me. It cleared up some DTV as well as analog channels.

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    ncardillo - Posted 11:19 am PDT 03/9/09 (31 Posts)  Report Spam

    this is up to $43 on buy.com, I think its still $38 on amazon though

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    cameraz - Posted 11:44 am PDT 03/9/09 (414 Posts)  Report Spam

    Works great. I'm running four TVs, a PC tuner card and cable Internet off of one of these. No problems.

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    MrWrigley - Posted 12:41 pm PDT 03/9/09 (351 Posts)  Report Spam

    Hook up 2 together for 968x speed boost.

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    sggoodman - Posted 2:44 pm PDT 03/9/09 (93 Posts)  Report Spam

    #6 wouldn't it be a 1024x speed boost? (32x32)

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    chuenl - Posted 2:49 pm PDT 03/9/09 (18 Posts)  Report Spam

    I'm not sure if this thing is supposed to work with digital signal.

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    JamesInLV - Posted 8:27 pm PDT 03/9/09 (30 Posts)  Report Spam

    There are no specs noting it as bidirectional (necessary for most DTV and cable-modem systems), but considering it's made for "broadband" it probably is. Almost all drop amps made and sold today are bidirectional, and say it in the specs or on the amp itself. Do not expect greater speeds, just boosting signals especially if you're splitting a single line too many ways and need to boost it.

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    harber79 - Posted 7:26 am PDT 03/10/09 (37 Posts)  Report Spam

    Just purchased one, works great as a booster for analog/digital TV. Split two ways, one to tuner card and other to separate TV.

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