[GRLUG] Slightly OT - Charter Service

[Mike Williams]

On 09/01/2011 04:22 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> At 03:17 PM 9/1/2011, you wrote:
>> Anyone else have packet loss on the charter network? Seems to come 
>> and go. It has been doing this off and on for the last few months. 
>> Will be find for 4-5 days, then i'll have packet loss all day... 
>> After that day it will be fine again for 4-5 days, then 30-50% packet 
>> loss...
>
> Thread Fork, ..
>
> Has anyone tried to hookup Charter with more than one or two cable 
> drops? I'd like to switch here, but we have four cable drops (and I 
> would like to add two) - there seems to be no way to get enough signal 
> for the cable modem. Tried a Leviton distribution amplifier, but it 
> DNW with digital cable.
>
>         TIA,
>
>         Lee
>
10 years ago I worked with a cable TV installer in Kalamazoo. It was the 
early days of cable modems, but they had similar problems. If you split 
the signal evenly you lose too many decibels for either side to support 
a cable modem. They had a box of special splitters that would minimize 
the signal loss at one port at the expense of greater loss on the other 
ones. Unless things have improved dramatically, you might have problems 
with that many cable drops.

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