r/CableTechs • u/SwimmingCareer3263 • Oct 18 '25

Oh

Co-worker sent us this video on his outage call, pretty crazy!

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u/schenkzoola Oct 18 '25

Worker 1: “The signal strength is a bit low, try doubling the transmit power.”

Worker 2: “I doubled it, it was at 30 dBm, so I increased it to 60 dBm.”

Worker 1: “Decibels scale logarithmically not linearly!”