Wireless Cable TV

[SteveJ34]

I am in a 2-story house with a room on the first floor that I have been struggling with a method to get cable TV into.

I could run a line from outside and come in through the brick wall on one side of the room but the entry point is really nowhere close to where I want the final outlet to be.

I have been looking at various routing methods while at the same time searching for other options.

Anyone have experience in wireless CATV connections?

Is something like this:

http://store.pcpowerzone.com/ancawicatvsy.html

or similar product even worth considering?

[polaris]

is there a difference between that and an av sender/receiver.
ive got an av sender/receiver for my tv for £25 ($50)
and it works perfectly

[polaris]

this one in fact
sender/receiver

[ChadTower]

I'm guessing he won't be able to install that on the neighbor's cable box.

[SteveJ34]

A sender/receiver might be sufficient.

The unit I posted has a tuner built in but if all I am doing is extending the connection from an outlet in the house to the TV location I probably don't need a tuner built into the receiver as I could just rely upon the tuner in the TV.

[ChadTower]

A third party tuner may well have problems with many channels... pretty much anything being decrypted or at least authorized at the local box.

[SteveJ34]

A third party tuner may well have problems with many channels... pretty much anything being decrypted or at least authorized at the local box.

Where I get confused from my reading some "AV Sender/Receivers" appear to also transmit IR signal back to the transmitter.

I don't want that as the only thing I was expecting to be on the transmit side is a spare CATV connection in the house but it looks like the receiver side is A/V jacks only not CATV coax cable so tuner in TV is not going to work....its expecting that to be taken care of on the transmit side.

I'm only interested in lower level  "digital tuner not required" channels anyway as this is for kids room as we have done in other bedrooms.

It appears I may need 'tuner capable' capacity unless there is such a unit that is CATV coax on the receiving end.

[polaris]

the way youd have to set this up, is the cable box by where the cable comes in to the house, the tv out from that would go into the sender to a receiver and tv in another room, the remote ir thing is to change channels with the box in the other room, its a little ir transmitter you hang in front of the cable box ir receiver
i think my sender thingies are for a more casual use, rather than a main system and you wouldnt be happy with them
youll have to pay more than i did i fear

[boykster]

If you can swing it, a good quality splitter (at the source) and running cable is your best (and cheapest) bet. 

[knave]

Perhaps this is too obvious but in my house...also a two story...all the cable runs are either under the house in the crawlspace on the ground floor or in the attic space on the 2nd.   While I hate that there has to bee holes drilled in the floor it does get the cable to the correct spot.  For some awful reason the builder of my home did not build it with cable jacks. (I hate him)

[SteveJ34]

If you can swing it, a good quality splitter (at the source) and running cable is your best (and cheapest) bet. 

I've been listening to 2 teenage girls whine at me about it since March and that's what I keep coming back to....pulling everything out and figuring out a real coax cable run from outside wall of house.

I would probably go through the expense of getting wireless option up to work and the signal would suck or have interference.