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Wireless Transmit Coax Cable Signal to Garage TV?

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Wireless Transmit Coax Cable Signal to Garage TV?

I have a TV in the garage. I want to attach my basic Rogers digital adapter (Cisco DTA50) to it to get basic SDTV in the garage while i work, Unfortunately the coax cable that the digital adapter requires does not reach to the garage.

Is there a cheap way (under $30) to wirelessly transmit the coax cable signal to the digital adapter in the garage? For the record the digital adapter has its own remote and so all i need is just a constant coax cable signal to the digital adapter to replicate what is already happening in my wired living room, unless i'm missing something.
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COAX signals cannot be transmitted wirelessly.
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It will be a lot cheaper to just run coax to the garage.
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have you thought about getting a firestick or googlecast and stream your service provider
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People still have cableTV? You must cut the cord! Literally... Running coax to the garage seems pretty archaic.

Get yourself an android set top box, shop Kijiji for an IPTV service, use your wifi, enjoy 1,000's of TV channels and on-demand content in your garage.

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Don't pretty much all the TV providers (Rogers, Shaw, Bell, Cogeco etc) offer wireless set top boxes these days? Call your cable company and get them to swap out your 1990's tuners.

By now if you pay for TV, you should have a 'whole home' PVR and wireless set top boxes for other TV's. Chances are it will work fine in your garage.

The DTA50 is a device that just lets you use the tuner in the TV to select your channels. It's super basic. You need a proper set top box connected to an HDMI input on your TV, or coax probably tuned to a channel (3 or 4 maybe?).

Anyhow - call your TV company and get them to set you up. Heck, they'd probably run coax to your garage for you. Many TV packages come with a certain number of coax outlets and the installers don't generally care where you want them.
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Unfortunately, there's nothing for under $30. I'm assuming it's a detached garage some distance away?

- Wireless transmitters of video signals exist, but aren't cheap.
- If you don't already have wifi in the garage (to use streaming services or Rogers' wifi "boxes"), a mesh wifi system would be more than $30. I assume you're on a relatively cheap and basic plan, so upgrading the Rogers equipment would be expensive and require an ungraded package.

Easiest thing to do is to extend the coax cable. Figure out where you want to run it (buried, along a fence, in the air, etc.) and measure a purchase a length of RG6 cable and a good splitter. Split the cable in your home and plug it into your new cable and TV and see if the signal is fine along that distance. If so, then you can drill a hole in your house and another in the garage and run the cable. If the cable isn't shielded from UV rays, it might only last a few years, but that might be all you need before you change to another system.

Alternatively, if you just want something in the background while you work in the garage, look at over-the-air TV signals. Here's the rabbitears map for London: LINK

Expect to get the green signals with a basic antenna. Looks like you'll get CTV easily and OMNIs, TVO and YES if you point it more SW.
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I think @torontotim has the best suggestion: see if you can get a wireless set top box from your TV provider, hope that they'll throw it in for free, and hope that your WiFi signal reaches to the garage.

Other than that, the only solution under $30 is to go buy yourself a longer coax cable and string it to the garage. Is that impossible for some reason?

There are other solutions:

- I have tried a wireless TV transmitter in the past. These operate in the 2.4 GHz band shared by everything, so interference is a common issue with these transmitters. So not under $30, and likely to have interference problems.
- Something like a Slingbox that re-transmits video from you cable box over the internet to their app on the receiving end. Solution way over $30.
- I have an old Archer Rabbit TV transmitter system that transmits video over a tiny wire that's easy to string anywhere and tuck out of sight, up to 150'. Bonus - transmits IR signals back the other way to control the source. Hasn't been sold since the 1980s, but you can still find them on Ebay.
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if u want cable wirelessly in the garage for cheap, then you aren't going to get it with rogers. maybe bell but you would have to cancell your rogers service and go with bell, fibe tv, their set top box is wireless, even if you get their basic $25 starter tier but you have to pay rental on your set top boxes unless you bundle it with a bunch of overpriced stuff like high speed internet or cell phone, etc but its still a good alternative to rogers
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you will need to run a new longer RG6 Cale (Coaxial) But if you are going to do that you better also run a Cat6 cable for internet and future need as I'm sure you will need it.
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Just get a slingbox and watch on iPad or laptop or phone.

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