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Electroline EDA FT08100 8-port TV Signal Booster/Amplifier with Active Return Path | 
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| Brand: Electroline
Category: CE
List Price: $179.99
Buy New: $110.00
You Save: $69.99 (39%)
New (4) Refurbished (1) from $95.00
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1793
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 6 x 2.3 x 5
MPN: 528-0151
Model: EDA-FT08100
UPC: 853016001819
EAN: 0853016001819
ASIN: B000F3NFPY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Shallow 2" mounting depth, 0 dB return path loss | | • | Waterproof housing and SCTE compliant 360 F-terminals | | • | Rated at IEEE 6 kV 3 kA combination wave standard | | • | Short-circuit protected wall adapter | | • | 10-year manufacturer's warranty |
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Product Description
With the trend of more single family houses being built, Electroline introduces the Flat-Top amplifier to meet the expectation of having cable service in every room in the house. The EDA-FT 08100 Flat-Top is designed for large houses with a cable or off-air drop in every room. The flat top configuration keeps the wiring more compact and neater in both outdoor subscriber box or wall-mounted applications and eliminates the technical problems associated with trying to fit a standard 8 port amplifier into a box that is too small creating crushed and kinked cables that wreak havoc with digital services. Electroline Flat-Top amplifiers are the only amplifiers to offer a configuration with all F-connectors on the bottom edge of the amplifier, facing down. Also, Flat-Top amplifiers come with an active return path which makes managing return signal levels straightforward. With 0 dB of loss in the return path, interactive services can be deployed in any room without rewiring. Features and Specifications: *Number of ports: 8 *Forward gain: 3 dB *Return path insertion loss: 0 dB *Forward passband: 54-1000 MHz *Return passband: 5-42 MHz *Frequency response flatness: 1 dB *Surge protection (IEEE C62.41-1991, all ports) ring wave: 6 kV, 500 A, loc. B3, combination wave: 6 kV, 3 kA, loc. B3 *Operating temperature: -40F to 140F (-40C to +60C).
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Essential product for HD signal with quirky instructions January 7, 2009
Matt (Belmont, CA USA)
I installed this unit October 2008 at the cable entry point to our house. I routed Comcast's main feed directly into the unit without a splitter. This unit enabled us to get 1080i signals without static. I connected one output to our cable modem while additional leads ran unsplit to the cable boxes. The internet service seemed to improve.
In January 2009, a comcast service truck arrived unannounced and the tech said they detected problems with our internet service signal. The Comcast signal strength is set expecting splitters at the customer home to reduce the strength into the cable modem. Without splitting it, he said the signal was too strong and overdriving the modem electronics. (no details as to exactly what the proper signal strength should be but he had a network analyzer) He said the electroline unit was a good piece of equipment.
Here is where the instructions need modification. Rather than splitting the cable before this Electroline amplifier and cutting your TV signal, he installed a 9dB two-port splitter AFTER emerging from the this 8-port unit THEN connected the cable modem. He even boosted the main signal into the house from a remote Comcast-owned repeater box. Try this configuration to preserve your main line signal for TV reception while maintaining the proper modem signal.
Summary: Get it and you will not be disappointed!
Provides excellent signal amplification December 13, 2008
F. Marsh
I have been using two of these amps for several months (one in continuous use) and have had no problems. The picture quality is excellent from my Comcast cable input. At first I thought there was a problem but later determined that the signal strength was too high for my Olevia HDTV and it had the effect of making some of the stations freeze. I put a couple of cheap splitters in line with the input to my TV (to reduce the signal strength) and the problem cleared up. I have not tried an output for Broadband or Over the Air signals so I cannot comment on those applications.
Cable Signal Booster April 24, 2008
JayKK (KCMO)
This product works great! It eliminated some of the annoying crashes on our cable boxes and the zero level feedback to the router helped the bandwidth when we upload/download from the internet.
Great unit, works well, unnecessary warning in the box January 27, 2008
Jeff Lindborg (Seattle, WA United States)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I purchased this unit because I have two analog feeds and two QAM digital capture feeds (via an HDHR unit) that I use in conjunction with SageTV for recording television. I also have a cable modem so there's a couple splitters involved. I did purchase good passive splitters (Monster 2 and 3 ways), however the QAM signal quality levels and the modem performance were not ideal.
I got this model because of the cable modem support. Imagine my surprise when the first thing to pop out of the box is a note from the manufacturer that it's best to put your cable modem on it's own line off a splitter and not hook it up to this unit because some signal loss may occur. What the..?!?!? After ranting for a while and generally annoying my wife with my whining I hooked it up anyway and took some measurements. Fortunately their warnings are not necessary - they may want to think about rewording that little note a pinch.
Here's the hard numbers:
The QAM capture signal strength using a Monster 3 way split off the single line coming in my house (I have no up stream splitters - it's all centralized in closet) for the HD ABC feed had a strength of 88 and a signal quality of 92. Putting the one line as the feed into the 8 port amplifier and running the QAM ports off of it the strength jumped to 92 and the signal quality hovered around 94. Nice. Doesn't sound like a huge deal but for HD QAM captures it makes a difference.
I didn't notice any different before or after with the analog channels - I wasn't having a problem with those.
The cable modem was the item I worried about. Downstream from the splitters it was pretty bad - anything would be an improvement. With the outside cable plugged into the Motorola modem directly downstream signal to noise ratio was 38.6 dB (higher is better, anything over 30 and you're aces), the down stream power is .2 dBmV (fine) and the upstream power was 42 dB (anything less than 50 and you're fine). After running it through the 8 port amp the downstream noise ratio was 38.3, down stream power 1.7 and the upstream power stayed at 42. All dandy numbers. I checked the speeds at several sites before and after and they all averaged about 10 meg down and 1.5 meg up across the boards - virtually no difference. Just about exactly as good as a direct connection and much better than down stream from a passive splittler, even a good one.
So - short version I'm extremely happy with the purchase but I'd suggest to the fine folks at Electroline that they rethink their warning note in their box so as not to tick folks off too quickly for no reason.
Excellent Amp, Great Price, Super Delivery January 20, 2008
D. Dreher (Philadelphia PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This works Great with Comcast Cable. Excellent picture on all 11 TVs. Also installed new RG6U Quad Cable direct to most TVs. Price on Amazon was better than on EBay and received in 3 days.
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