We recommend one piece units. It has been our experience that one piece units work better to replace your cable company’s converter than a 2-piece unit. Although 2-piece units tend to be less expensive, they tend to work less efficiently as well. As the saying goes, "You get what you pay for! " Additionally, our 1-piece units cost less than other wireless lan companies’ lan 2-piece units. 5. what is a cable converter / descrambler? an electronic tuning device that transposes all available channels from the cable company into either channel 3 or channel 4. a cable wireless lan converter is simply a "channel changer" that cannot by itself descramble encoded premium channels. it allows you to receive all basic channels if your tv is not the cable ready type.

this holds true even if your cable box is purchased as a non-addressable non-detectable, and "bullet proof" unit. 2. lan are all cable converters alike? no. prices can range from $15 to $400 depending on the quality and amount of features included in the equipment. some companies offer to sell you a description of how you can build (implied), with only 7 parts from radio shack, a converter. some sell old converters that are barely in date and likely to be replaced by the cable companies by higher technological grades of equipment some cable box sellers provide systems that hardly provide any benefit to the purchaser where the quality of reception is poor, without recourse. state-of-the-art cable box companies will provide the most recent technology in a variety of packages ethernet wireless lan and lan tailored to fit the customer’s budget.