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Hi, I got the ATI tv wonder card for my computer. I have it installed but when I plug my cable tv wire into it, my cable internet connection seems to stop. I cannot use cable internet when I have cable tv plugged into my tv wonder card. Is there a way I can have both? When I unplug the cable tv wire from the cable port on the capture card, I get the internet back after a few minutes... usually I get into my router and do the IP renew. I appreciate any help.
You can't feed the signal that goes thru the cable modem into the card. Must have a splitter in front of the modem and divide the two.
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That is `really' strange. I wonder if the TV cable ground is somehow feeding a spurious signal into the system. If you have a local TV station, I would try feeding the signal from some rabbit ears instead of from the cable box.
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Disregard the prior post. I assumed that you were running the cable from the cable box to the computer. But I guess you are not using the cable box.
The tuner might be putting too much of a load on the cable signal. You could try a simple TV signal amplifier inbetween the cable and the TV wonder card.
I hope you aren't running the line from the modem in, like Othehill mentioned.
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No, I have a cable jack on the other side of my room. I did have a splitter from the wall, one cable going to my modem then one going to the tv card, that didn't work so i then came from accross the room. I discoverd that my whole network goes down, not just this computer. What is the TV signal amplifier you are talking about? My cable internet goes from wall to modem to router to computers. My cable tv to computer setup goes from wall directly to tv wonder card. Other TVs in the house are on and I still maintain a working internet connection, however when in my room where all the internet and networking stuff is at, it quits. I thank all for the quick responses. I plugged it all in and got the cable tv going and i get all the channels i should, but i simply cannot live without the internet.
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How many TVs do you have on the cable? Do you have any cables that are off splitters that are not hooked to anything? If you have a lead running to a room and not using it, you will still lose signal strength. Probably need to buy a good amplifier. I have a good amplifier and I am running 6 TVs and 2 tuner cards with no problems. The Quality of the cable is important also. I am a builder by trade and have found that you must use a good grade of quad shielded coaxial cable. The fittings on the ends must be the correct ones for the cable you have and be installed properly on the cable. You might want to have the cable company out to trouble shoot. They can put meters on the system and determine what is wrong. What kind of cable do you have connecting the computer to the modem? It sounds like you have TVs on your cable in front of the lead going to the modem. If so, that probably is your problem. The Modem must come off a 2 way splitter before any TVs. The splitter has to be the correct type for the internet. Sorry I can't give you specs. but when I had my internet installed, the installer informed me that all splitters aren't the same. Get one from the cable co.
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i dont know how the cable is wired through the house. we have the main splitter in the basement. goes off in all directions. goes to several cable outlets in the walls on the first floor, I am in an upstairs bedroom there are 2 cable jacks in each room. coming directly from the cable jack, i had a cable wire that the cable company provided with installation, going to a splitter i bought, from there, one went to the modem the other went to my TV card. that didn't work, so I tried coming from a different cable outlet. I still have the same problem. Its like cable TV takes priority over the internet. As far as my modem goes, its cable wire to modem, cat5 from modem to router, cat5 from router to computer. You are thinking that when i try to use cable tv and internet from the same room off of two different cable jacks that im requiring too much from the signal so it can only use one thing (that being tv) and not both? What type of splitter should I use? Is there a special type of cable wire that should be different to the modem than to my tv card?
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hey everybody, i just watched some tv on my computer and messed around with the internet stuff in my router. the reason i lose my internet connectivity is because the connection times out. cable as you know being DHCP, i release and renew it, and the WAN ip address begins with 192 instead ot the 67 it should. i believe this is now a network issue, gonna post on there. thanks for your help everyone.
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Nope, that is a cable signal interference problem.
When you connect the Cable line to the TV card, your system is injecting so much RFI (Radio Frequency Interference) into the cable that it is interfering with the signals for the Internet.
Thingd you can try.
Make sure you system had a good ground. Make sure the ground plug goes to the wall and the house ground wiring is OK.
Take several "cheap" TV splitters and short cables. On the cable coming across the room, add a cheap splitter going to the TV card. If that does not help, try two or three. The object is to reduce the RFI going back into the cable system, yet still be able to get the TV signal to the TV Card.
Next, instead of the cheap splitters, try an RFI filter if you can find one. Or you might see if your cable company has an "inline filter" that blocks everything but the standard TV channels.
Your Cable modem works downstream on frequencies well above the TV channels, while the upstream works on frequencies below. Your system is generating RFI all over the spectrum and you have to block it from going back out the cable. If the TV card RFI is bad enough, it could knock out your neighborhood's Cable Internet for everyone. If this happens for too long, your cable signal will go off and someone from the Cable company will be knocking at your door.
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Jack, you are saying that my cable tv system (being the tv wonder card) is creating RFI on the above frequencies and below the TV frequencies which screws up the internet part but allows the TV to come through? Is it the computer that is causing all the interference or am I putting too much stress on the whole cable system in the house and it can only handle the middle part of the spectrum so it allows that? I don't want to mess up cable internet for the neighborhood, i think i'm the only one though with cable internet though. Is there a way i can check the RFI from my tv card? Also, by standard channels, do you mean 12 or all that comes with the cable plan I have. I would like the same that I get on tv's without the cable box. At least fox news :)
If I take some tv's of cable in other rooms will that help? How much would an inline filter cost? or a RFI filter?
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