Other cables to think about are the ones that connect your various devices — DVD players, maybe a Boxee or Roku for video streaming, and your satellite or cable box — to your TV.

Cable providers deliver both high-speed Internet and cable TV through coaxial cables. Smaller businesses do not need a dedicated cable port for both services: a splitter can be used.

Ethernet splitter vs. switch: Which one do you need? Ethernet switches and ethernet splitters seem, at first glance, to be basically the same thing. Their names and functions are similar.

The problem with having the guy come out and fix it is that we're not paying for cable tv, so I don't know what he'd do about that. And the splitter is behind a desk. Usually when the internet ...

I have a passive splitter to a cablemodem and a cable telephone modem and it works fine. It was provided by the cable company. It is an Antronix CMC2002HC-A.