Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-07 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/6/2020 10:13 PM, eric norris via Elecraft wrote: It drops constantly, all hours of the day and night. Eric, I had that problem for years here in the house I bought in NorCal. Turned out to be a 6dB attenuator that the Comcast installer had added to the tap-off that already had the

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread eric norris via Elecraft
This begs the question:  If I "caused" the outage, how is it possible my own internet never went out?  They claim they get a lot of complaints about customer's internet dropping out, but don't realize I WAS THE ONE making half those complaints!  It drops constantly, all hours of the day and

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/6/2020 3:35 PM, Gwen Patton wrote: This is precisely why we don't have Comcrap and instead have FIOS. We had constant trouble with Comcrap, and almost ZERO problems with Verizon. Wish I had that option, but I'm lucky to have a POTS line here in the Santa Cruz Mountains. No cell coverage

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Joseph M. Durnal
This one is going to be tough, because they aren't likely to give you the details you would need to know. Your post suggests that you have been disconnected. Get on 20 meters at legal limit all day, see if he comes back. If so, it is almost certainly their problem. If not, the problem is

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Buck
We have 40-year-old, squirrel-chewed, waterlogged cable in our neighborhood. Lots of unterminated connectors too. COX has spent nothing to maintain it. Switched to FIOS and problems gone. At the office, we lose Internet every time it rains. I swear Comcast is using the old Civil War

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Gwen Patton
This is precisely why we don't have Comcrap and instead have FIOS. We had constant trouble with Comcrap, and almost ZERO problems with Verizon. The only issue we ever had was when we decided to cut the cord on the landline and TV. We never watched the TV anymore, and the only callers on the

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Jim Brown
On 8/6/2020 2:32 PM, eric norris via Elecraft wrote: My house is 65 yrs old, none of the outlets have grounds, not even the bathroom.  The entire kitchen is on one circuit, etc, etc. Before I call the Comcast supervisor, I'm hoping for some advice from the group. While the house is probably

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Steve Kercel
Eric: You've just discovered one of the reasons that Comcast has the reputation of being "the most hated corporation in America." Your chances of getting any cooperation from Comcast are practically nil. I had a similar problem with Comcast some years back. I finessed the problem by

Re: [Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread Dave
I do not have any chokes or ferries and have the beam on a Glen Martin on the roof. Shack on second floor and cable modem & router in shack. Hard wired access point and gig switch in living room. No issues. I’d ask the cable tech to show you that you are causing the interruption. Coordinate

[Elecraft] 20m CW + KPA1500 = Comcast Disconnect

2020-08-06 Thread eric norris via Elecraft
Dear Gang: While looking at Europe banging in on 20m FT8 this morning, I switched over to CW, cruised the band, then called CQ DX for a while.  An hour later, a Comcast (Xfinity) technician was knocking on the door (no mask) claiming I was knocking out service to 600 customers (he said he had