Cable Internet and Voom

[stevecss]

I hope this would be the appropriate place to post this question.

I live in an apartment right now and I have Comcast Cable Internet along with their HDTV programming. I just bought a house which I will be moving to by the end of the month. The house is prewired for cable TV.

Is it possible to keep my Comcast Cable Internet and also Subscribe to VOOM for my HDTV? Could they use the same pre-wired cable or would VOOM have to drill another hole to put another coax cable through my house. Or would I be better off just switching my internet connection to DSL?

Thanks in advance for any help. :)

[jermg77]

I used to have DirecTV and Cable internet... I tried to run both signals down the same wire using diplexers (modulates both signals together on the input end, then demodulates them on the output end)

Now.. this worked quite well for about 3 months... the DirecTV had perfect signal strength, the Cable Modem always held a solid connection. After the 3 months, however, I began losing my internet connection at random times for anywhere from 10 minutes to 3 hours. I thought it might have something to do with what transponder my DirecTV was tuning to... but I could make no connection.. I swapped out my cable modem 3 times... no good.. Finally I just ran a second coax line and gave each system their own wire... all was well.. I suppose that I could possibly have a diplexer that went bad... but never tried a new one..

hope this helps.

jerm!

[mikehbkwm]

unless you have a great telephone company where your moving i wouldnt get dsl... cable internet is quite a bit faster overall....

[kevinw]

Drill another hole for VOOM. Keep cable because you'll need for local programming anyway.

[stevecss]

thanks for the responds guys :)