I have cable at two houses. One is on the cape (Comcast). the other one is a local municipal cable system
Comcast claimed there was too much Ingress coming from my house. They came into my house and pretty much replaced every piece of cable that I had outside of the walls. They also installed some kind of isolator amplifier unit (that requires power that I had to put on a UPS).
I believe on the Comcast website for your account you can actually see how much noise they think you produce.
On the municipal system I had an issue where my cable boxes were not working right. The first thing the guy did is removed every filter, splitter, trap and other doodad that previous technicians had put over 30 plus years.
And then I got rid of all my cable channels at both houses :-)
-------- Original message --------
From: Kevin Stratton via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Date: 9/6/23 08:38 (GMT-05:00)
To: Worcester Linux Users' Group General Discussion <wlug@lists.wlug.org>
Cc: Keith Wright <kwright@keithdiane.us>, Kevin Stratton <kstratton@fastmail.us>
Subject: [WLUG] Re: I need advice on a new ISP
my cable modem insisted that all the splitters be removed so that there
is only one cable (with connectors) from the cable going into the house
to the modem. It is my understanding that this was done for signal
integrity reasons. I am using a consumer router to interface to the
modem. I do not know how TVs are wires using this configuration, since
I only use over the air for TV.
If you can find a cable that leaves the house, that is the cable you
should be most interested in. Follow the cable once it gets inside a
house. There is some art to this, I did not know of the cable being
routed under a rug. Maybe you can do a perimeter walk of the house
outside to find where the cable enters the house to localize the correct
cable. I was surprised to learn where my cable was, it was not where
logic said it would be.
On 9/6/2023 12:23 AM, Keith Wright via WLUG wrote:
> John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> writes:
>
>> For you, I suspect that in Worcester charter.net (spectrum.net) is
>> your only other option for connectivity.
> I am thinking of going that way.
>
>> Do you have Cable with them?
> No. I don't own a television, but the previous owner of this house did,
> and when I called Spectrum, they said that I do have a cable, it just
> needs to be plugged in and activated. They suggested a self-install
> kit, which can be picked up at the Spectrum store. That would be quick,
> if it worked, but I foresee all kinds of possible problems.
>
> Of the many co-axial cables hanging out of the walls, how can I
> tell which is the input? Most of them seem to be disconnected.
>
>> Once you get this figured out, then you can figure out how you will
>> host your personal domain(s) and web services and such from either
>> home, or out in the cloud.
> For that, based upon Hosting Advice 2
> http://www.free-comp-shop.com/none/final.html#adv2
> I am looking at Afterbrst
> https://afterburst.com/operating-systems/
>
> Has anybody had any experiance with Afterburst?
>
> I like them because Linux is their OS, and because a short
> question got a quick answer which made sense, and I'm not
> even a customer yet.
>
> My current ISP (GTT) thinks I want to read about their big
> "milestone", which is a slightly different LOGO that they
> call re-branding.
>
> I looked at Oracle Cloud, but it was page after page of "services"
> with names like:
> Block, Object, and Archive Storage; Load Balancer and data egress;
> Monitoring and Notifications
>
> Huh? What's that and why do I need it? A few dozen pages of that
> kind of bafflegab is enough for me. I could find no starting point.
>
> -- Keith
>
>
>
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