[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by G.R.I.T.S.

The outside cable box most likely has a splitter for the number of tvs that were connected when Comcast did the original hookup. Purchase a splitter with enough ports for the remaining unconnected cables and connect all of them. You won’t have to guess which room cable is “hot.”

Not exactly. There is one cable that goes from the outside Xfinity (Comcast) box to the panel box in the garage. Then, there are about 6 or 7 cables that run from the panel box to each room outlet throughout the house. When you sign up for Xfinity service, Xfinity will usually only activate the room outlets that you want and connect them to a splitter inside the garage panel box. You can only use the activated outlets with an Xfinity cable box or modem or an approved modem that you own. Xfinity can control your service remotely because the cable boxes and modems can be monitored, activated, or deactivated remotely. Also, the cable boxes are encrypted to prevent you from stealing the service. You can move a cable box or modem from an activated outlet to an unactivated outlet, but you would need to disconnect one cable from the panel box splitter and connect the unactivated cable, so you would still have the same number of activated outlets. You could do this yourself. But, if you want to increase the total number of activated outlets in your house, you would need to rent another cable box from Xfinity, and they may need to come to your house to replace the splitter, and to possibly increase the power of the signal entering your house. That is how I understand the system works in most houses.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by rpalumberi

We have our router connected where there is both a landline & coax connection. We'd like to move the router to another more central location in the home to improve wifi through out the home. Is that an Xfinity or a Galaxy job?

You should be able to do that yourself. Just disconnect the router and move it to another activated outlet inside your house. Then, run a phone wire from the router to the nearest phone jack, which is probably in the same room. Another option is to buy a set of cordless phones and connect the master phone to the router. If you do that, you won't even need to use the wall phone jacks at all.

[DylanTodd]

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for the replies and offers to help. I received a reply on Nextdoor by a neighbor who lived 1 or 2 villages over and he came this morning and got us all set up. Its so awesome that everyone jumps in to help like this.

Cheers,

Dylan

[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by rpalumberi

We have our router connected where there is both a landline & coax connection. We'd like to move the router to another more central location in the home to improve wifi through out the home. Is that an Xfinity or a Galaxy job?

IF (Big IF) you have a coax cable near the location where you want the Router located, then this is actually a DIY project. If there is no coax nearby, you are probably better off with galaxy, the last time I was involved with Xfinity they would not go into the attic.
Here is what I did, there was a coax in the guest bedroom a few feet away from where I want the modem and into opposite side of the wall. I drilled holes through the wall, connected about 20 feet of extension coax, feed it through the wall and installed to cover plates, works great.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by villagetinker

IF (Big IF) you have a coax cable near the location where you want the Router located, then this is actually a DIY project. If there is no coax nearby, you are probably better off with galaxy, the last time I was involved with Xfinity they would not go into the attic.
Here is what I did, there was a coax in the guest bedroom a few feet away from where I want the modem and into opposite side of the wall. I drilled holes through the wall, connected about 20 feet of extension coax, feed it through the wall and installed to cover plates, works great.

I'm confused. If the poster just wants to move the modem to a more central location in the house for better wifi coverage, there should already be several coax outlets available. Even if one is being used by a cable box, you can connect the modem to it with a splitter.

[davephan]

There is a solution for the problem if you don’t have a working Eithernet connection, but do have a working coaxial connection. The solution is using two MoCA boxes.

I have fiber Internet in my garage, but there was no Eithernet cable in my laundry room which contains the distribution box for the coaxial cables and Eithernet cables. Frontier used MoCA boxes to get the Eithernet from the garage to the laundry room. The Eithernet is connected to an MoCA box at the first location, then a coaxial cable is connected to the MoCA box. At the second location, the coaxial cable is connected to the second MoCA box, and then Eithernet comes out of the second MoCA box.

I used the same MoCA solution to fix the Eithernet problem in my master bedroom. The Eithernet cable existed between the laundry room and master bedroom, but the Eithernet speed was only 10 megs. I installed another MoCA box in the laundry room and in the master bedroom. The Eithernet can then be distributed using the existing coaxial cable. The speed of the new MoCA boxes is 2,000 megs.

Most older homes have coaxial cables run to each room, but may not have Eithernet. Or, the Eithernet cable might be the old, much slower Eithernet cable. The MoCA adapters is an easy solution for that problem. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of having new Eithernet wires run through the attic and through walls. The coaxial cable can be shared between cable TV and the MoCA adapters. So, you can use the existing coaxial cable for both the MoCA boxes and cable TV, at the same time. You can easily distribute high speed Eithernet to multiple rooms using MoCA adapters. You’ll need one MoCA adapter at your distribution box, plus a MoCA adapter box at each room location.You’ll also need a high quality coaxial splitter in your distribution box. A low quality splitter is not compatible with the MoCA boxes. The high quality splitters are not expensive.

You can learn how to easily setup MoCA boxes yourself by simply searching for MoCA on YouTube. The cost for a pair of MoCA boxes is about $110, and you can easily buy them on Amazon. You probably won’t see MoCA boxes for sale at local stores, but they are easy to buy on Internet stores, like Amazon. The MoCA boxes are an easy solution to get Eithernet distributed to the rooms in your home.

My Frontier fiber Internet service is 500 megs up and down. I could get 1,000 meg up and down service for $30 more per month, but the 500 megs service is fast enough for me. Before fixing my master bedroom Eithernet problem, the speed was less than 20 megs up and down in the master bedroom. After installing the MoCA boxes, the Eithernet speed is 450 to 500 megs in the master bedroom.

You can also install WiFi access points around your house after using the MoCA boxes around your house, to dramatically improve your WiFi signal around your house. But sometimes using Eithernet connections on devices, such as video streaming boxes is the better solution than using WiFi. The MoCA boxes are an easy way to get high speed Eithernet around your house, without the hassle and expense to fish wires around your house, possibly having to repair a lot of wall damage after the wires are run through the walls.

[rsmurano]

You do t need xfinity to move their box, unplug the cable and plug in the cable to another port in the house. Just make sure the ports are hot because in new homes they are aren’t terminated. It’s fairly easy to terminate a rg6 cable, but if you don’t want to, call galaxy

[Pinball wizard]

Originally Posted by M2inOR

It will be easy IF there are already connectors on the coax cables that are in the low voltage box in the garage. Either disconnect existing coax from splitter and reconnect the coax to desired room.

If the other coax cables do not have connectors, then the job is more involved:
- identify which cable goes to desired room
- install appropriate connector.

Down here in Marsh Bend, only 2 of the 10 coax cables were terminated with connectors, and none of the Ethernet cables were terminated. I had Galaxy come to our new home to properly terminate all the cables, label them, and test them. Then I added a large splitter to provide a working coax cable connection to each room. For Ethernet I just left cables as is, as I decided on whole house mesh WiFi to take care of internet.

Even though I could have done the cable and Ethernet connecter installation all myself, I decided Galaxy's price was right, as all my tools and test equipment were still at my previous home in Oregon.

It's a mystery as to why this wasn't done originally when the home was built.

This is why when I had DirecTV installed, I asked the install to put connectors on all of the cables in the low voltage box.