bullyvision
join:2004-09-12
Grand Rapids, MI
| reply to HockeyPuck86
Re: A reality check for do-it-yourselfers...
Dear DIY,
Is it really that bad for us to wire your house? First we start by realizing what is possible and what is normally done in a house (like wallplate placement; a good tech will tell you why it is a good spot and why it isn't). The technician should go up the pole or open the underground ped and take an ingress reading of the drop (similar to interference, if you don't have a $1000 meter this is close to impossible...). Then the technician takes a signal reading ($1000 meter again) outside the house where the feed is about to begin (ground block) prefered 10/10dBmv (Ch 76/ Ch 2). If everything is up to code (including safty bond per NEC), the tech will then check where all the wires assemble together like in the basement by the fuze panal (hopefully...), if there is too much splitter attenuation then he will inform you of different options in order to meat the 0dBmv FCC requirement like a house amp, additional drop (*will do no good in a properly designed system because when they design a system it is one service drop per house so the tech would just end up cutting the signal closer to the noise floor right at the tap, unless he orders a system order to install another tap, but system designers hate that because it nocks every tap down the line a half of a dB; and no tap level subsitutions for lower Tap attenuation*), or even terminating an outlet that is out of use. Now this concludes that a house can only capacitate 4 video outlets, and one High Speed Internet connection without taking other means to get more signal, and that is not to mention the configuring of the return for digital devices (example 23 value 4 way doesn't have very much to work with when it comes to return value, normally in the system I work with a 4 way 23 value tap you can only attenuate the return by 7.5dB before it is a non responder...).
So basically we are losing money installing your outlets so please do not hesitate to put your cable installation up to the difficulty of a cable tech, we wouldn't install outlets if we didn't have to, but it is about you not us, stop giving yourself headaches. A lot more is going through a cable tech's head now with all the digital devices and extensive training that Comcast puts their employees through. And if a tech does a poor job or they are not doing the services requested properly do not hesitate to just say so. |
HockeyPuck86
join:2004-03-11
Ecorse, MI
edit:
March 29th, @12:53PM
| Ok.. I'll be sure to have Comcast come out and install the next outlet I Need 
Or I guess I could save myself the money and have my brother (who use to work for a cable contractor) come over and do it for me. (last I checked that was free). I'm not about to have Comcast come out and install something I can have done for free at the same quality and yes, he does have that $1000 meter. |
