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join:2006-04-07
Tucson, AZ
| This just keeps getting better and better.
I should have brought my digital camera and catalogued the depravity of their cable wiring. Instead, I'll attempt to show what I found when I inspected their wiring.
Cable Drop One -> Cable -> Air
-> TV -> TV
Cable Drop Two -> Cable -> Extension -> Cable -> Splitter -> Cable -> Splitter -> Modem
-> TV -> Air
Yes, they have two cable drops and one of them is just hanging exposed off the side of the house not hooked up to anything.
Yes, they actually have some cable connected to some more cable with some weird extension thing.
Yes, they actually have the modem hooked up after two three way splitters for a combined loss of 14 dB.
Yes, Cox actually installed all of this, except for the second splitter and everything after that.
I couldn't do a whole lot, but I did put the modem on the 3.5 dB leg of the last splitter and I replaced the old, thin cable with the new, thick one in the self install kit. Yes, they actually hooked the modem up with some old, thin TV cable. The signal levels are a little better now with a Downstream Power Level of -12 and an Upstream Power Level of 55. The Downstream SNR increased by 10 dB from swapping out that cable. |
