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cameo
- Jan 1, 1970
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Years ago, when Comcast added Internet service to the pre-existing cable
TV service in my neck of woods, the technician, after running a short
pigtail coax cable from the wall outlet to a two-way splitter to serve
both the TV and the cable modem, he also installed a small hex barrel
shaped filter into the cable leg that runs from the splitter to the TV.
The filter is about half inch thick and 2 inch long and looks made of
stainless steel.
Not being an electronics expert, I never really understood the purpose
of that filter and I did not notice any difference either im my
broadband modem or TV performance after I removed it. Can anybody
enlighten me what that filter is supposed to accomplish? If anything, I
would have expected something like that in the cable leg that runs from
the splitter from the modem, not in the TV leg, but what do I know?
BTW, the following code is stamped on the filter: SNB6-5/136 kV 182, if
that means anything after all these years.
TV service in my neck of woods, the technician, after running a short
pigtail coax cable from the wall outlet to a two-way splitter to serve
both the TV and the cable modem, he also installed a small hex barrel
shaped filter into the cable leg that runs from the splitter to the TV.
The filter is about half inch thick and 2 inch long and looks made of
stainless steel.
Not being an electronics expert, I never really understood the purpose
of that filter and I did not notice any difference either im my
broadband modem or TV performance after I removed it. Can anybody
enlighten me what that filter is supposed to accomplish? If anything, I
would have expected something like that in the cable leg that runs from
the splitter from the modem, not in the TV leg, but what do I know?
BTW, the following code is stamped on the filter: SNB6-5/136 kV 182, if
that means anything after all these years.