PACOSO Amplified HD Digital TV Antenna with 50-85 Miles Long Range - Detachable Signal Booster Support Full HD 1080P 4K All TVs for Indoor w/Longer Coax Cable

I bought this signal distributor/amplifier several years ago to help with the TV signal in my house. I did not have any diagnostic equipment to verify if it improved anything or not. I also bought it before I went to a digital set (Comcast analog TV at the time) and left in in place. I then upgraded to FIOS 2 years ago. The technician who installed FIOS said I wouldn't need it because fiber is run to my house, so the coax signal should be very strong as it's generated by a device that sits on the outside wall of my house.Well, I started doing my own DVR on my computer and noticed a couple of channels that were HORRIBLE. They were very choppy and impossible to tolerate on my computer (using an HDHomeRun Prime tuner) - the FIOS equipment didn't have a problem with those channels for some reason. This tuner (the HD HomeRun Prime) has some built in diagnostics, and I could see that the specific channels I was having issues with didn't have a strong signal. So I re-installed this device on my FIOS setup and it cured my problem. A 75-80% signal went to 95%. The picture was much clearer and flawless. It even allows my internet signal and on-demand two-way communication to pass upstream (FIOS only as far as I've tested)So, it does work, but it's only worth it if you can identify your need.

If you want to do it all correctly with little signal loss, THIS is the way to do it. Pro quality equipment for high bandwidth.We have 60 MBps available at a rural location. I needed the whole house to be fed from a TimeWarner feed for both digital cable and internet. I didn't want to mess around. This does the job well. Just be sure to use quality cable and connections in the house, terminate unused ones, and get good equipment. The system is only as weak as the weakest link. This will not be it.Also, we recently cut the cord on our cable (^%&$ Spectrum) and went streaming / internet only. We fed our attic antenna into this and BADABING we get 34 clear channels to all the TVs. (The internet connection part is split before this.)

Working great. I figured I'd wait ~6 months before I wrote a review. After ditching cable, I installed a roof top ClearStream 2V Long-Range HDTV Antenna and plugged it into the house's existing cable (3 bedrooms+Living room) but the signal was weak in all the rooms, (except the master bedroom which was not split) I figured I'd give the signal booster a shot. There was 6 port cable splitter in the attic (this is in south Texas, so we'll see if it makes it through the summer) which just happened to be next to an outlet for the doorbell transformer. It took just a few minutes to hook up and has been working great.Update: 24 August 2015 Still working great. Even in the hot attic in South Texas. Once minor note. Although it claims to be Motorola, the product I received was branded as Arris...but otherwise appeared to be identical.

See attached photo. My TV channel scan showing the Channels it found during signal scan in Orange County, California.My set up: (2) of the flat square Mohu Leaf not amplified, (1) splitter to bring (2) antenna into (1) output, (1) Motorolla Signal Booster Splitter and the necessary coax cable. For better reception, I placed the (2) Mohu leaf in different areas of the room.(2) Mohu leaf into simple splitter for dual antenna converted to one output, single coax from Mohus splitter to Motorolla splitter, from Motorolla splitter to TV in living room and to TV in bedroom. 140+ Channels. Channels look better than via my Time Warner Cable box.Though, I had to block many of them by choice due to no interest in the content. Got points from wife and kids and I save tons of money because HD TV is free.

I have a single cable entering my home, that Comcast installed.For at least a year I was able to use a cheap passive 2-Way Splitter and watch both my TV thru a TiVo Premiere, and access the Internet at 25Mbps (nice). But recently, for an unknown reason, the Internet Signal became too weak to access the Web. The TiVo continued to work, as apparently it does not require as strong a signal.If I removed the Splitter, and connected the cable directly to my Cable Modem, the Internet would work. But I want to watch TV, too !Every call to Comcast ended with them wanting to send a Technician over - while charging me $50 for the house call. Although I have had skilled and professional Comcast Techs over in the past, I've found the majority do nothing but turn my Cable Modem on and off, and usually leave with no solution.So I proceeded to eliminate the obvious. I inspected the Cable outside my home. It looked in excellent shape, physically. Indoors, I swapped Splitters. I swapped Cables. No improvement.But by searching the Internet, I finally learned something new: I COULD CHECK THE SIGNAL STRENGTH MYSELF, WITH EQUIPMENT I ALREADY OWN !My TiVo Premiere, and probably every DVR, has a sub-menu that will display Signal Strength. I discovered mine was 67. On a scale up to 100, 67 is not good.And my Zoom 5341 Cable Modem (very recent and DOCSIS 3.0) has a Signal Strength display as well. I expect pretty much any Cable Modem will have this function. Just open MS Explorer, type in 192.168.100.1 as an address, and you'll be taken to the access page. Log In, and on a sub-menu the Signal Strength will be displayed.Mine was in the -5.5 to -6.5 range, on all channels. Awful.So I purchased and installed the BDA-S4. The Signal Strength on TiVo leaped from 67 to 89 ! Nice. But the Cable Modem was reporting no Signal at all - Zero.I called Comcast again, and armed with this knowledge, emphasized how bad my Signal Strength was, for both devices. The tech on the phone was impressed I could read the Signals. For the first time I felt in control.He tried to fix it, running me through the usual turn-it-on turn-it-off reboot drill, to no effect. Each time I checked the Signals and told him how poor the Signal was.At last he said he needed to talk to another tech - and simply disappeared. He did not hang up on me, but must have been gone for 30 minutes or more. I never spoke to him again.But what did happen, is quite suddenly the Internet worked ! My Signal had increased from -6.0 to +6.0. Very nice.Clearly Comcast did something, at their home office, that corrected my signal. No tech needed to visit at all.I'm still using my BDA-S4, though ultimately I probably don't need it. It looks to be very well made, and effective.Bottom Line: Before you purchase any Amplifier, CHECK THE SIGNAL STRENGTH yourself. Your DVR and your Cable Modem should have this function already, you just need to know where to look.Good Luck !