There's other things to look at... have you looked at your Comcast router (in the admin menus) and seen what the received signal/noise ratio is at your location, and what upstream power it's having to use to reach them?
I had a problem when I first set up the Comcast line into the house where the house wiring was old RG-6 crap that leaked like a sieve. An upgrade to the cable going to the router, and all was well. (I successfully use Vonage over it all the time.) The modem was "screaming" at somewhere around +50dBm to "talk back" to the head end. Now it's far more into the regular range at +34 or so. (Yep, the cable in the house was THAT bad.) However... and this is another "gotcha"... my circuit from Comcast isn't a residential account. It's a small business account, complete with a public static IP range. ($) Whether or not they've got their you-know-what together enough to treat QoS differently on my circuit versus everyone else in the 'hood... I don't know. They were utterly confused when I wanted commercial service at a residential address, which led to there being two copies of my address in their lookup database for "Is service available in your area"... one's marked "SMALL BIZ"... cracks me up. Nate WY0X -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:repeater-buil...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Naruta AA8K Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:51 AM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Split site link via IP There seems to be adequate bandwidth, as I can load my cable connection with additional downloads and it has no effect on the level of packet loss and delay. The garble is at a constant level, whether it is at 8 PM or 5 AM.
