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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
so your saying its cable? but my 10 meg has been stable and the other box is fine also
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I thought that my 10 Meg cable modem (was about 2 Meg back then) was OK until I monitored it (graphing tracer) and found that it was anything but reliable.
You can easily find out your power levels by checking in the CM's stats and providing neither the CM or TV Drive has an attenuator fitted then they should be the same. My up link is 33db the downlink is 34db with an SNR of 7.5 (which is highish as optimum is +\- 2.5). There is an attenuator fitted to the TV Drive to lower the levels a bit. In my experience the more serious service problem are apparent if the CM drifts down to big minus numbers and I found that on the old co-ax I hovered around -35 and drifted down to -60 at various times of the day (mostly at night). I firmly believe that if I was still on that cable, the TV Drive would be a nightmare.