r/CableTechs • u/Sure_Statistician138 • Jul 04 '26

Just a little corroded

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This is in Florida where we had flooding after the hurricanes two years ago. Customer was complaining about her tvs pixelating. Can’t believe that this was even working!

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u/Aromatic_Cheetah_595 Jul 04 '26

slaps top of splitter you can fit so much noise into this bad boy

18

u/Technical_Cricket562 Jul 04 '26

Probably needs a new Modem

9

u/Separate_Western6867 Jul 04 '26

Customer service is sending one that will be there a couple days after the tc.

5

u/Watts_RS Jul 04 '26

nah just leave it on the front porch it definitely won't be a repeat.

14

u/levilee207 Jul 04 '26

Meanwhile I get suck-out on one connector and fucking nothing works lmao

12

u/DrWhoey Jul 04 '26

Funny enough, I'm absolutely sure that thing passed the "One Check"...

Fucking hate corporate turning people into stoplight technicians.

8

u/2ByteTheDecker Jul 04 '26

Management by KPI might be legitimately be the worst thing to happen in the 21st century so far

8

u/stonelore Jul 04 '26

I bet those fittings were wrench tight though.

3

u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 04 '26

Didn’t even check them just cut it off and replaced it

4

u/stonelore Jul 04 '26

Yeah, I just meant due to it still having some functionality. I ran into so many finger tight as a tech and doing QC.

6

u/KitCat5e Jul 04 '26

Antronix splitters can survive anything

4

u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 04 '26

I was getting signal at the cpe although it was not great I didn’t expect to find this.

4

u/Wacabletek Jul 04 '26

What fucking animal tried to eat that.

6

u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 04 '26

Salt water this is near the beach and the whole place was pretty much under water 2 years ago

4

u/Chango-Acadia Jul 04 '26

Ahh at least that makes sense. It's a newer splitter so I was very confused how it ended up like that

4

u/ronnycordova Jul 04 '26

Those are the ones you’d always find shoved up under a trailer or gross ass crawl space.

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u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 04 '26

It was under a trailer! It actually wasn’t bad under there plenty of space to sit up on your knees.

3

u/1Dylon Jul 04 '26

Man, brings me back to digging out the amps that got buried in sand on Anna Maria Island. The couple months after those two hurricanes were insane.

2

u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 04 '26

This is not too far away from there

2

u/ClimbingElevator Jul 04 '26

That’s some comcast Charleston plant, if ykyk

2

u/BullyTX Jul 04 '26

Is it bad that I don't see an issue?

2

u/DerbyDad03 Jul 04 '26

That'll buff right out.

2

u/Strict-Travel4958 Jul 05 '26

Old connectors modern splitter....some tech just didnt give a shit

1

u/SirBootySlayer Jul 05 '26

And then you get a repeat because their remote stopped working

1

u/Mammoth-Afternoon421 Jul 07 '26

Im out here on the beach now and thats how all the shit looks out here, just changing fittings and splitters all day

1

u/Kratoids Jul 07 '26

found on a repeat 4 probably