[rohrmann]

I'm pretty sure, from all of our experiences with the quality, or lack of, of all the things installed in these rigs, that the splitters that are installed are probably the low end in quality, plus, I have discovered many of the connections are poorly made and most in our rig were loose. I have read that splitters should be in the 900 Mhz to 1Ghz range or better, and have just the number of connections needed, no extras. We had to upgrade to the Dish Wally from the older VIP 211k boxes due to a power issue, and when doing the conversion, had to run HDMI cable from the box to the TV, and found this made a huge improvement in the quality of the picture. Another place where signal is lost is the coax connectors, which also can degrade signal, which I learned about when we still were in the S&B from our cable company tech. I may be worth the effort to replace as many of the connectors that can be accessed.