High Speed Internet and Modems and stuff

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:45:13PM -0400, Joseph Kubik wrote:
> I had rogers high speed cable using the rogers provided motarola cable modem.
> The setup went like this: cable guy showed up and setup the modem.
> I plugged my laptop running suse linux into the modem via ethernet.
> I rebooted.
> I opened firefox and used the internet.
> 
> 1 month later:
> I had TERRIBLE problems with the modem losing signal strength.  After
> 10+days  of troubleshooting dealing with cable techs....
> The neighbor had spliced my cable with a rat shack splitter and the
> sigle was too weak.

Sure you cut the signal by 50% that happens.  That's quite a drop.  My
digital cable box wouldn't receive a bunch of channels when I split the
cable between it and the VCR (so I could tape shows).  After removing
the 4way splitter rogers had installed in the basement to get 4 outlets
working, it worked fine.  It also worked fine without the 2way splitter.
It seems most of the digital stuff on rogers works with with a drop of
up to about 75% in strength from the incoming signal strength, but no
more.  Of course the splitter also has to cover a large enough frequency
for it to pass through the digital signal (and be bidirectional too for
transmit to work).  Sometimes a signal amplifier is needed (which I plan
to add at home).

So if your neightbour steals half your signal strength, you have
a problem with your neighbour, not rogers.

> All told, Rogers was easy to use, but not reliable enough for me.

Well I won't say anything about rogers being reliable.  I am
unfortunately stuck with no choice at my new house because bell won't
buy equipment to make room for more DSLAM line cards. :(  So no more
istop.com for me.

Lennart Sorensen
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