[Traduk]

rdhw,

I was a bit lazy with my use of dB and dBmV which is a carry over from my days when I worked in transmission systems. We never used the mV tag because if we were dealing with power levels it was just dB or often no tag at all.

It was my downstream receive power level which is currently at 7.5 dBmV that used to hover around the low neg 20's but used to slide down through the neg 40's on through neg 50's. The surfboard used to drop in the neg 40's but the replacement 200 could hang on until about neg 55. The upstream power could hang on to the connection until it's power dropped comensurate with the downstream but degrading service was seen all the way down to drop-out.

When the CM levels were increased through higher and higher Meg levels there were some people with suspect lines who had problems. It wouldn't surprise me at all if a number of people didn't find that the new TV Drives are problematic due to poor power levels on their CATV feed. I have already seen people state that a CATV outage prevents viewing of recorded programs so I guess that interaction with the feed is critical.