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The cable signal coming into my house is not the greatest and the channels have always tiled a little - some days were worse than others, but it was pretty annoying. Then in April 2011 I built a HTPC using a Ceton InfiniTV 4 Digital Cable Quad-tuner Card PCIe because I got tired of only having two tuners in the DVR rented from the cable company. Two tuners is definitely not enough for me, especially during football season. Anyway, the InfiniTV 4 tuner is very picky about having a very strong signal so the tiling was much worse after I switched to the HTPC that I built - it was annoying on a good day and pretty much unwatchable on a bad day. I scheduled service calls with the cable company a few times to try to get them to clean up the signal coming into my house but they had no interest in fixing the issue - as luck would have it, it was only intermittently tiling when they arrived for the service call and they said it was normal for the channels to tile sometimes, which is complete bull crap when it tiles multiple times within a five minute period. Before escalating to a supervisor I figured I would give this amp a try first since it had so many positive reviews. I've been using it for two weeks now and I have yet to see the picture tile even once. Also, I can have all 8 coax cables that go to all the rooms in the house connected, whereas previously the cable company said they only supported up to two video devices using their two-way splitter. Mine is installed indoors in the basement (screwed to a floor joist), but this amp is very well made and looks like it could definitely be installed outdoors as long as the power supply was protected from the elements - the outside of the amp has a ceramic or powder coating to prevent corrosion and the jacks all have rubber or silicon on the inside to prevent water from entering when a coax cable is connected (it also comes with plastic covers to cover the jacks you aren't using). If you have a cable modem or eMTA I would NOT recommend connecting them to this amp. The ideal way to connect the modem or eMTA is by making sure it comes off the first split where the coax enters your house. I'll try to describe it: The coax from the cable companies tap comes into your home and should be connected to a two-way splitter rated at 5-1000 MHz, with -3.5db coming off each leg of the splitter. One cable off the splitter should go DIRECTLY to your modem or eMTA and the other should go to the amp (ie. booster). Then, obviously, all the other coax should be connected to the amp (booster). I have uploaded some pictures on the product page to show how it should be connected.