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th'engineer
16-07-2003, 17:33
Just a poll to see if people have been getting more connection problems with the fine weather .

I have been told that the local street cabinets overheat and cause things like SNR and return path problems.

This can also manifest itself in freezing or pixelatted TV
matty4donna
16-07-2003, 17:37
Ive voted no more then usual but i dont get any anyway :)
Jarandco
16-07-2003, 18:41
I've had more problems, although not much more than usual, but the heat definetly effects it! I was told this by a NTL guy!

Surrey

Jar
Tristan
16-07-2003, 18:43
My STB lost the EPG data, and there was the occasional video drop-out when it was very hot a couple of days ago. Fine now though.

Broadband worked perfectly the whole time :D
Chris
16-07-2003, 18:45
The TV has frozen or blacked out momentarily 2/3 times an evening over the last few days. BB has dropped out a couple of times (first time in months, to be fair) but has always been back after a few minutes.

Hemel Hempstead (orig ntl) area.
dingosar
16-07-2003, 20:37
Originally posted by matty4donna
Ive voted no more then usual but i dont get any anyway :)

same here ...........nothing more to add :erm: :erm:
th'engineer
16-07-2003, 20:54
It might be of interest there is a change in SNR here since the hotter weather . Higher SNR
ZrByte
16-07-2003, 21:05
My channels have been blurring a lot over the last few days, never seen it before And I dont know if its doing it now (Just started to cool down now, one of the hottest parts of the country here today aswel :D )
ic14
16-07-2003, 21:06
Well me cable modem froze, but it was nothing that a reboot wouldnt sort out!
Steve H
16-07-2003, 21:47
There's no vote for "Im getting no disconnections anyway";)
matty4donna
16-07-2003, 21:49
Originally posted by Steve_NTL
There's no vote for "Im getting no disconnections anyway";) Thats what i was thinking, seems a bit unbfair to assume that we all get them. :)
Tristan
16-07-2003, 21:57
Ah, but I'm getting no more than usual, where the usual is zero...
Jarandco
16-07-2003, 23:03
Well you dont have to vote!!

I think the heat seems to effect the STB's more than cable modems maybe becos the connections overheat but so do the boxes?
th'engineer
17-07-2003, 06:52
It appears more prevelant on STB set ups as said before you can also monitor changes in SNR and return power with up dwn blue.

But other data streams are also involved in this hence freezing pictures lack of interactive on STBs
bigitup_j
17-07-2003, 09:29
no problems whatso ever.
ntl also reckon my stb is broke because every day i lose data and the green box in my street is out of the sun all day (par from 1 hour in the evening)
my bb is very reliable, and i have never had any real problems with it! :)
basa
17-07-2003, 09:39
Pixelating, freezing, loss of picture (displays stripes across screen), oh yeh and abyssmal BB browsing - (slow and sites not working) on 150k STB CM. :( :(
th'engineer
19-07-2003, 06:58
Well anyone else checked there SNR and return power levels at start of day compared to end of day