>From the side of our house, the line goes to a 3-way splitter: one to the
>cable modem, one to the 1st floor, and one to the 2nd floor. Before that,
>the 1st floor line was split at the TV to feed the cable modem.
We had a longstanding problem with a Comcast splitter when we first moved
into this
Tom, et al.
Thank you for the thoughts on this thread! And Tom, to respond to your
questions:
> I'm not following whether your in-wall wiring is still in the circuit
> going to your cable modem, or if it is only being used for the TV. Was
> the hookup to "the side of the house" temporary to pr
Rick Umali wrote:
> When our TV began to exhibit tiling, we called Comcast, and the
> technician determined our signal wasn't strong enough. He put in new
> coax "from the pole" to the side of our house.
Makes sense, as coax cable does seem to degrade with age.
When I upgraded to digital TV servi
I have had Comcast/ATTBI/MediaOne essentially since the service becams
available in Newton. Almost since Comcast took over from ATTBI, my
service has been very reliable. Except for the few times a car and truck
took down the lines, I've not had a complaint. I think there was a
Comcast outage fo
My only FiOS horror story is the inability to get it. Verizon wanted to
come to Boston but was unwilling to commit to hooking up the entire city;
Menino wouldn't sign off unless they did. If Verizon had gotten its way I
probably STILL wouldn't have gotten service, as I live in one of the parts
of t
On April 25, 2013, Rick Umali wrote:
>I'm looking to compare notes with people who use Comcast Internet
I used Comcast Internet for years, and frequently had outages like the one
you described. At a certain point, they became intolerable, with dropouts
every day. I spent a month or two with Co
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Rick Umali wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking to compare notes with people who use Comcast Internet.
>
> For the past month or so, my wife, who works from home, has complained for
> fairly regular outages with our Internet. We live in Arlington, and the
> outages
> "Rick" == Rick Umali writes:
Rick> However, the outages continue to happen. Now Comcast has
Rick> suggested we replace the cable modem. We're hopeful this makes
Rick> our Internet stay alive.
Rick> Has anyone had any similar experiences? My big fear is that
Rick> replac
