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In Chesapeake, Potomac, Susquehanna and Patapsco, the cable jack is located on the bottom or side of the communications box. In the new wing of Patapsco, the jack may be on the drywall (not cinder block) walls. In Erickson and Harbor, one jack is located in each common room. In Hillside, Terrace, Westhills and Walker Avenue Apartments, the jack is located in the common or living room.
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While we cannot officially recommend the use of a splitter, if there are multiple televisions in a dorm room or apartment a splitter may be used. Make sure the splitter is of a high quality, and is rated for at least 860 MHz. Finally, use a splitter that provides as many ports as you need, but no more.
Remember: a two-port splitter cuts the signal strength of each port in half. A four port cuts each port in half again, and so on. From our testing, a four-port splitter should still provide a usable signal to all four ports, provided all other considerations have been optimized.
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It is recommended that a high quality RG6 coaxial cable is used. The cable should be free of kinks, nicks and cuts to damage it for maximum signal quality. Also, the length of the cable should be minimized to provide the best possible signal.
Coaxial cables may be purchased from the UMBC Bookstore, or from any number of retailers or big box stores in the area.
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A series 2 TiVo device should work with the system, provided an external converter box is used. Unfortunately the Series 4 TiVo does not have the inputs for an external converter box.
Unfortunately, we do not currently have CableCARDs (as most Clear QAM systems don't). Additionally, since we do not have CableCARDs, the TiVo Series 4 device cannot tune to any channels. At this time, the Series 4 TiVo is incompatible, but we are still investigating ways to get all TiVos to work as intended.
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Requesting a new channel is easy. Put in an RT ticket listing the channel name, and any compelling arguments for it.
While we will do our best to honor the request, some channels may not be available due to technical limitations, availability, or cost.
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About 146.
There may be a slight variance since local channels have been known to add or remove sub-channels from time to time. When this happens, the system is updated automatically.
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Unfortunately we do not have a guide channel. However, several listing agencies now have our current channel lineup online, and others are continually added.
TV Guide and Zap2It both have our correct information, and the data may be retrieved by using the zip code 21250. Microsoft Windows Media Center uses the zip code 21228. If you are aware of any other listing agencies that still show invalid lineup data, please submit a ticket and we will work with them to correct it.
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The channel lineup can be viewed at http://resnet.umbc.edu/cable.php . The top of the page has a link pointing to the current channel lineup.
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At this time, UMBC does not provide converter boxes.
However, they may be purchased from popular online retailers such as Amazon.
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