Airport Express only works on one cable outlet in the house

I have successfully hooked up my AE to the cable modem in one room of my house, but am having trouble hooking it up in the living room. I can hook my powerbook up to the cable modem in living room, but I cannot get the wireless router to work, although the steady green light comes on. Could it be a problem with the cable signal? The reason I wonder about this is that I cannot get online if I hook the modem up after using a cable splicer to provide cable to the TV. It only works if I hook the modem up directly to the wall outlet. So, to summarize, AE works fine on one cable outlet in my office. At the living room TV cable outlet, I can go online by connecting the modem's ethernet cable to the computer, but only when the modem is plugged directly into the cable outlet, not after using a cable splicer. I cannot get AE to work at all from this cable outlet. Any suggestions?

With the splitter in place, I can't get the ethernet connection to work, even when plugged directly into the computer. But, what's weird is that I can connect with the ethernet directly into the cable outlet (no splitter), but can't get AE to work at this outlet. I'll keep trying.

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