[GRLUG] Slightly OT - Charter Service

[Mike Williams]

On 09/01/2011 08:38 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Mike Williams wrote:
>
>> Unless things have improved dramatically, you might have problems with
>> that many cable drops.
>>
> Ahh, .. that was the original question - HOW does one find a distribution
> amplifier that WILL work.
>
> 	Lee
>
I'm not entirely sure you can. If the problem is signal to noise ratio 
rather than sheer signal strength, then an analog amplifier will not 
help. You'll amplify the noise just as much as the signal and the ratio 
won't change. Of course, if the "amplifier" is technically more of a 
"digital repeater" then you might be in better shape. I'm not sure 
anyone but Comcast could provide such a thing, though. Some of the 
channels on DOCSIS cable modems are used for upstream data, some are TV, 
and some are downstream Internet. Unless the repeater knows which is 
which, it's likely to cause problems. I know almost nothing about 
DOCSIS, so it's possible that there is some kind of autoconfiguration 
channel that the hardware can listen to.

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