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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025

How to install a XiD-P box for a second tv.

The main box is a XG1v4-A and is fed from a splitter that is fed from the main cable coming into the house.  Out of that splitter is feeding the internet modem and a second splitter whose output feeds both the XG1v4-A and XiD-P boxes.  The internet and the XG1v4-A box work just fine, but the XiD-P will not connect.  I keep getting error messages telling me to tighten connects.  Believe me when I say ALL connections are tight!  When I started having problems I contacted tech support and followed their recommendation to exchange cable boxes.  Then after hooking up everything as it was previously installed nothing worked.  Further trouble shooting identified one bad splitter and went to Xfinity store and got two new splitters and hooked up all cables as previously installed and the XiD-P box will not hook up. I even swapped the coax for the two tvs on the splitter and still got the same result.  Through all this, the internet works fine.  Is there some unique step to getting the XiD-P to work or is it bad?  Thanks for your help.

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Thank you for reaching out and creating a new post. I see you're running into some trouble getting your second box connected. I'm checking the details of the equipment and network, but I don't see any issues. To ensure I understand correctly, is the XiD on its own outlet?

 

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To answer your question, yes the XiD is on it's own outlet.  It does share it's input from the same splitter that feeds

the other tv box, which is working properly.  I even swapped the two cables on that splitter just to make sure there was nothing wrong with the splitter and the XG1 box worked properly.  

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Thanks for the update, sounds like it's a splitter issue being that you're going through 2 splitters that could weaken the signal.

 

I would recommend getting a single splitter that can support more than two coax connections.

 

 Or another option you can do is use one of our Xfinity wireless cable boxes https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/x1-hub-vs-companion-box ( Xi6) for your second TV.

 

You won't need a coax cable connection, that's what I have set up in my basement and on my porch that allows me to watch TV services since these are older smart TV's I have that can't access the Xfinity streaming app.

 

I do have one TLC smart TV that has Roku installed, so for one of my TV's I'm not even using the cable box,  I'm just using the Xfinity streaming app https://www.xfinity.com/get-stream that's installed on the TLC Roku smart TV

 

 

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