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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).
I hate electronic problems that are not repeatable. I figured there had to be some very slight fault in the cables that wasn't bad enough to cut off the signal, but bad enough to interfere with it. (It's funny how totally dependent we have become on the internet). My family was getting pretty irate. I am normally a bit cynical about the performance claims of companies like Monster Cable. I have my screaming fast internet back, and everybody is happy.I guess there really is a meaningful quality difference. Didn't fix it.I was getting extremely frustrated. The last rep (logically) concluded that the only component that could be flakey was the wireless router and he sent me a new one.
Well, blow me down. The very helpful customer service reps led me through several attempts to fix the problem. I'm an engineer, I want to understand exactly what is happening and the slightly fuzzy, "oogy-boogy" nature of some of these claims makes me scoff.BUT.I am amazed at what this little thing did for me.I spent a good 5 hours on phone calls with my FiOS service provider trying to figure out why my super high speed internet connection was intermittently stopping and going super slow and then hitting its speed limit. So I swallowed my skepticism and decided to try replacing the standard quality splitter that the FiOS company installed with one of these Monster 2-way splitters, because that was the simplest first step. They are nearly unsolvable. After thinking it was fixed a couple times, the problem reappeared. The problem is gone. Monster, I believe.
I got this to replace the standard rusted-out splitter that Comcast had installed in my home years ago to reduce any kind of loss and improve picture quality. While it seems to be working fine, I haven't noticed any improvement over the old rusted one.
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