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Don,
Fiber is a good thing but it sounds like the cable plant was already in bad
shape. When they moved it to the fiber, shortened the length of the COAX and
turned down the power for the new shorter design requirements, bad cable
plant problems show up. They probably had the gain set higher than normal
before the switch to fiber to mask the bad plant conditions.
The important thing is that you noticed it in your TV reception. So anyone
having problems with their TV reception should contact the cable company.
Another issue can be too much power or gain, it will also distort the signal
and cause reception problems.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Ewers [mailto:dbewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 10:23 AM
To: Omega List
Subject: Re: Cable Amplifier
Recently my area was rewired with fiber optic cable. This cause problems for
my cable modem and my signal strength was weak (the sign I had of this was a
shadowed TV picture). The cable company came out and replaced allot of
"fittings" with newer more shielded ones that "leak" less and new splitters
that "leak" less. They replaced all the store bought cables with their
shielded ones. Additionally they switched my main connection to one that was
"split less" at the main entry buss. All of this increased the strength from
4.5 to 7.5 and the number of lost "packets" dropped dramatically so it is
worth looking into. The speed did not increase but the data integrity
improved. Apparently the fiber optic change makes the existing setup more
subject to leakage if I understood the technician correctly. Hope this
helps.
don ewers
----- Original Message -----
From: William Werler <bwerler@xxxxxxxx>
To: 'Steven Itkin' <sitkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: Cable Amplifier
> Cable amplifiers add power to make the signal stronger but do not increase
> it's speed. You only need one if the signal strength is low. An indication
> that signal strength is weak is a snowy picture on a TV set. If your TV is
> ok I wouldn't worry about it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Itkin [mailto:sitkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:45 PM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Cable Amplifier
>
>
> Is anyone familiar with cable amplifiers to improve the speed of cable
> modems? Product recommendations, anyone?
>
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