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 - Great BuyThis product was exactly what I needed for my new house. I have COMCAST digi cable, phone and internet and a couple of my TVs in my basement were fuzzy. After I purchased this, all the signals in my house are clear (2 are HD, one regular cable and one internet). I highly recommend this to use if you were having problems like I was. It cleans up all the signals nicely. Rating: - This was the solutionThe internet came though on this one for me because of Amazon and these reviews. I bought one and put it on the cable where it entered the house as some of the reviewers suggested. Instant solution. The cable company box now gets every channel, the channels are crystal clear, and the box switches channels very fast. My only thought is that it should have been included by the cable company with the cable box. It was the solution. 100 percent successful. Rating:  - It doesn't work -- Period.I tried this on my Comcast cable system. I even bought the Monster 2GHZ splitters, which in fact DO work well, but this so-called "booster" just boosts electrical noise on all 3 of my TVs. It's funny -- Comcast says I "must" have one of these on my system ( one of THEIRS, I suppose ), but after 3 tries with it I just gave up. My pictures are clearer without it and it doesn't even make a good doorstop. Rating:  - Helped, but not by much.I just bought my wife a new Vista system with an ATI Wonder TV card, so luckily I was able to run signal strength tests from the tuner diagnostic screen in Media Center. I did a pretty complete test with different splitters and came up with the following: My base readings using my standard connection (no signal booster, cablevision supplied splitters) gave me about 40db for basic channels, -8db for standard HBO, and a range of -9 to -12db for higher channels. The worst performance were the digital music channels at -12db (works but the music hiccups a bit). Keep in mind this is running through a cablecard connected to the TV card. Surprisingly, I found virtually no difference between the cablevision supplied splitters and the Monster 5-1000 splitters. Signal loss is rated the same on a double splitter (-3.5db per split). My old gold Radio Shack splitters were only marginally worse (about -1db worth of difference overall). Adding the signal booster in any splitter configuration only gave me at best an extra 1db on average. The digital music channels come in noticeably better, but the audio still hiccups regularly. -12db should be within acceptable range limits, so it might be the cable card. (My HD DVR box on the den TV handles the digital music flawlessly, so my only conclusion is that the cablecard is the culprit. If anyone knows a way to test signal at the source I'd appreciate the imput. Rating: - This Works Like a CharmWe receive over the air digital TV and even though we are less than 15 miles from the transmission towers we have a problem getting a strong signal. Living at the bottom of a hill has its problems. We thought about trying a different antenna but tried this Motorola Signal Booster as a first attempt to improve the signal. It works great I put it at the place where our antenna enters the house so it improved the reception on all of our TVs. Where before some stations had a 50% strength signal now they have a 85% strength signal. I would recommend it to anyone who has trouble getting a viewable over the air signal.
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