Comcast tech told my tenants that the coaxial cable within my condo was outdated & not adequate to provide good signal so it appears he installed a splitter from my neighbor's downstairs cable and ran new cable up the exterior wall to the M/B for internet service. Is it possible for a single cable to provide service to my neighbor and my tenants?
Although there is no need for TV modems in the other rooms as tenants are only subscribing to internet service, but if they decide they want to also subscribe to cable TV in the future, would the signal loss with additional splits to the other rooms be an issue? I'm assuming that I would need to run cable from the new outlet in M/B through the wall to other bedroom & then through wall from 2nd bedroom to the living room.
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The cable company will run ONE or more cable lines to a structure. Numerous things drive this decision, and I do believe there is a code they also must follow. This is just an FYI.
That said:
The only thing that would actually prevent the provider from splitting off to "other rooms on the same structure" is signal loss and signal quality measurements.
So is it possible to run multiple units from "one service line" via a number of splitters/taps? ABSOLUTELY and this is standard practice.
When the signal degrades beyond a serviceable quality and equipment cannot operate properly, or customers are complaining of outages, they may rerun cables (in near total futility) OR a wise technician will reduce the taps, use boosters, run another drop, etc.
So you know, every time you split a signal there is an inherent loss in dB. Drop below an acceptable level, and equipment will not perform optimally.