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I bought this to replace an old crusty splitter I had for ages. I'm glad to get rid of that ugly thing.The picture I get is just as good as the signal I get when I hook up the cable directly to the TV. I see no loss of signal strength. Overall, I'm very satisfied.
I measured it on the old splitter, switched to the Monster - and see exactly zero difference. I've been having problems with my cable signal, and I tried a few of these splitters to see if that's where the problem was occurring. Still, considering that my local electronics store no-name brand is about $15, I don't feel bad paying a few dollars more for the Monster product. Replaced the 15 year old, cable TV company supplied splitter with the Monster, and while it certainly seems to be a more robust product, in the end I saw no performance difference. Indeed, my cable modem (Motorola) has a diagnostic mode where it can display the strength of the incoming signal. It certainly seems more rugged, and I doubt I'd ever have to replace it again. Bottom line is I'm sure it's doing what it's supposed to, but there's no magic to be had by simply swapping out a splitter.
I have a VOIP phone connected to a router on an Internet connection that was split with the Cable TV. I plugged the sucker in and packet loss is now zero. The problem was that my phone wasn't working properly--my voice kept cutting out to the person I was talking to.After determining the problem was with my Internet connection, it was further determined that the phone worked fine when I removed the splitter that I had, took the TV out of the mix, and plugged the Internet connection directly into the jack in the wall. So the problem was either going to be with the splitter or there just wasn't enough bandwidth to deal with a TV, Internet, and VOIP phone.I bought this splitter to see if replacing the splitter would solve the problem. It's all good. Best $20 I ever spent.
Considering Monster only charges $20 for their splitter, it's a bargain when compared to what they sell their overpriced cables for. But faced with no HDTV until I replaced an aging, no longer working splitter, I ran out and bought what I could. Under normal circumstances, I would never waste my money on any Monster product since all of them are overpriced and mostly hype. As for the splitter itself, it seems well made, and works well. It turned out to be this Monster splitter. You can buy a quality splitter with the same specs for $10-$15. It doesn't perform any miracles though. Diagnostic tests show my signal db is no different from when the other splitter was inline.
I replaced a much cheaper Phillips splitter with this splitter (everything else remained identical), and the performance was slightly WORSE (confirmed by the television signal strength meter).
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