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Re: Telephone wiring - Me or the Cable Co? yes you can find small NID boxes online at numerous places, or go to a local electrical supply store and pick one up. You usually can find one that has the nice push down and terminate connections inside. Depending on the Cable company, most will do this, of course if they use contractors the job will not be good at all. I would also suggest, not tying the line into an existing outlet and back feeding, when i worked for a small cable company in Arizona, I would get alot of service calls about poor phone service on the VoIP usually i would find it was back feed through an existing outlet i would run a direct line and no more problems. Im sure it has something to do with the amount of voltage the eMTA puts out but really who knows. Also how has your cable internet been? Constant up time, do you have to reset your modem often? If so, request that they dedicate a line to your MTA, i found with both Arris and motorola MTA's they are extremely picky with power levels, if you have had issues open a web browser and surf to 192.168.100.1 and look at your power levels, the downstream isn't a huge worry, but the upstream you want to be in the 40's (42 was always ideal for me) However, anything below 36 and above 50 are trouble areas and need to be fixed. If your over the 50 marker make sure to tell the tech that you want it dedicated, that coax to the modem on the first spiltter from the drop, i would use a 2 way to another splitter for tvs and the other leg on the 2 way for the modem. This will give you the best service. Technically the NID provided by the TELCO is there property, so the cable company should be putting there own up. feel free to pm me if you have any questions if you plan to do it your self, i spent 5 years fixing crappy techs and contractor work so I'm pretty knowledgeable about eMTA's and the best way to get the best service.
On another note, to nonya, don't bash the companies ie telco's and cable co's a lot of them, like the one i worked for spent a lot of time and money training us to do these jobs correctly, depending on where you live/work dictates what you can and cannot do, ie in Arizona, only licensed electricians can wall fish, which led to a lot of post wiring. I can remember an 8 hour course with the cable company i worked for, that was all about wiring phone lines, the best ways to wire coax to eMTA's as to not cause issues, proper termination, etc. If the company provides this type of training, its the workers job to use the knowledge and alot of cable companies go and check work and if it is done half ass'd, techs get sent back to fix it. I personally have a strict rules for myself when doing this type of work, and i have worked with the IBEW so my ways are pretty well set in stone, but stereotyping everyone that works at a cable co or telco is wrong because maybe you will get a tech that does his job correctly. | |
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| If you'll look under my profile, you'll see my claims to expertise in the field. I stand by my assertion that, in general, you are going to get crappy work from telco or cable - as I have "been there and done that".
As for the 8 hour course, LMFAO. When I started at the phone company, we weren't allowed to run wire in a customers home without a 3 weeks course - BITS. When I started at the cable company, I was "slinging" wire the first day.
Things have definitely degraded.
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