My sis has fios and her speed dropped suddenly ...she has a win2k laptop and it was working fine and just dropped like a rock ...what should I advise her other than to make verizon's life miserable until they fixit?
-----Original Message----- From: gerald [mailto:ger...@slawecki.com] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:44 PM Subject: Re: speedtest i think verizon fios has a way of doing the throttle remotely. when i signed up for more speed, the sales person in the office turned on the turbocharger. was up speed in less than 5 min. At 02:47 PM 12/12/2008, you wrote: >You do realize Comcast sells 3 tiers... > >Basic 768up >High 6Gup >High+Boost 16Gup > >I have the BASIC and the numbers I cite exceed what they sold me so I >cannot fault that. But, they put a "brake" on the pole to keep it >below the upper tiers and behind them in priority. Where does one get >a splitter with a low impedance through channel such as you describe? >Would there be a WiFi solution to this that can reside behind my >router? Can it "see" the cable TV carried into the cable modem via the >computer? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard P. [mailto:richs...@gmail.com] >Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 10:12 PM >Subject: Re: speedtest > > >Yes, there are splitters with different impedance's. Cox has the cable >hitting the splitter and then the lowest impedance output (3.5db) of >the splitter along with the shortest run of cable going to the modem. >The higher impedance (7.0db) connections go to the TV sets. One time >after doing some maintenance the connections got mixed up and the Cox >help desk was able to see this through the modem signal strength >reading. I swapped the terminals back and the signal strength came back >up to normal. Here is an example of a similar splitter: > >http://www.dslreports.com/faq/3399 > >Regardless, your numbers seem abnormally low for cable on a regular >basis. Adding 30 to 40% by bypassing the TV isn't a solution. Tony is >probably right in suggesting that the bigger problem is more likely >outside your house, rather than inside. I had a similar issue and the >technicians found a bad connection at the pole and a shorting out >cable, both problems outside. Get a technician out there. > >Richard P. > >> what can I conclude from these results for my comcast sold as 768up >> speed basic internet via cable? >> >> speedtest.net 1867u/145d NY.NY >> speedtest.net 1195/116 Newark,DE (listed preferred) frontier.net >> 1115/335 voip.com 1004/361 >> >> do these results have any meaning? are they accurate? are there >> better places to check this? >> >> there was a "splitter" installed by comcast to allow a tv about 10 >> feet before my cable modem. I took it out and put in a "bullet" rated >> for over 3g and the speed went up about 30-40%. Was the splitter >> defective? Is there some sort of splitter I can get that will better >> distribute the signal as I want to hook up a tv near the computer? >> Can I hook the TV up somehow behind my router instead of on the cable >> before it? > > >*********************************************************************** >** >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* > > >*********************************************************************** >** >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
