I had difficulties a couple years ago as well with new house on old property, new wiring. My issue was with splitters, cable ends and signal loss. Took 3 techs coming out before they finally took out a meter and figured it out. I had 5 rooms to hit plus the office where the HSI needed to go. Without having cables marked, my office ended up having too splitters between street and cable modem and so much signal loss that at times it was a crap shoot. Re-rigged to put just one splitter between street and modem, using good splitters that tech gave me, re-cut all my cable ends (ones run in the house were terrible apparently) with ends from the tech, and increased SNR to cable modem by a factor. Almost no problems in almost 2 years since, other than that Phx wide router issue a while back. Michael Sammartano wrote: > RG-59 is still used, but it is not a good thing for Hi Speed cable, digital and HDTV. To much resistance from what I understand, which increases signal loss. RG-6 is the "minimum" requirement for Hi Speed internet and digital/HDTV. Cox uses RG-6 and fiber optics beyond that. I am not sure what part of town the "problem" are still in, but there was a period of time that the areas of town with overhead lines and real old burried lines were suffering the most. When Cox rid itself of @home, they tried to change from Cisco Routers to Juniper. After several weeks of issues, they went back to Cisco. The only issues I am aware of now are the old wires which are being repaired until they can be replaced with fiber. > ---- Jeremy Miller wrote: > > ============= > I'm pretty sure they use RG 6, that's what I have in my house. Then > again, I did that myself. When I went for their "Quick-Connect" kit it > had some RG 6 in it. Maybe they use RG 59 in some parts of town just > for inconsistency's sake. > > On 5/28/07, Jim wrote: >> Don't cable companies use RG 6? Anytime I've checked, that what they use. >> >> Michael Havens wrote: >>> it's probablr the cable.... RG 59 is bad stuff for modern cable television/ It >>> was fine for antena work but it's iffy with digital tv. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- > Please visit > http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss