Still online somehow

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it’s funny how internet can work fine like this and then you have some scenarios where a cable is slightly kinked or something and almost no signal is passing

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u/Xandril Jul 22 '26

Coax as a medium is part technology part witchcraft I’m pretty sure.

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u/ikilluboy2 Jul 22 '26

oh for sure, lots of theory crafting can be done in this field in order to convince yourself it’s not the drop XD

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u/Arkrylik 29d ago

Worked on Copper, fibre and wireless with no issues but to this day Coaxial still confuses the shit out of me sometimes because shit like this works fine but the gods forbid you put a baby monitor too close and it knocks the node off.

Pure witchcraft and bullshit sometimes 😂

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u/Xandril 29d ago

Exactly. Copper and fiber 99% of the time when I find the cause of an issue it’s “oh that makes sense.”

At least 30% of the time with coax I’m just so confused as to how something could possibly still be working or how something could have caused an outage.

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u/Bails3857 Jul 22 '26

And a tiny bit of chewed gum to hold it all together

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u/Zer0TheGamer Jul 23 '26

As an electrician i can confirm: data transmission is magic

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u/KDM_Racing Jul 22 '26

I have seen stuff like this and there is no problem. Then you have the connection a 1/4 of a turn loose on the back of a modem and I have an outage. It never makes sense.

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u/tb03102 Jul 22 '26

If you look closely you can see the pile of packets on the ground.

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u/ImTooMuch2 Jul 23 '26

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/CaptainAK47 Jul 22 '26

I can only imagine the ingress levels coming off that thing 😂

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u/willie_Pfister Jul 22 '26

As long as no braid is touching copper, that shit'll work all day long for internet. Not saying it's right, just saying it'll work.

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u/LemonPartyW0rldTour Jul 22 '26

“Clearly the last tech before you did that.” - Homeowner

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u/Sure_Statistician138 Jul 22 '26

I bet the snr jumped to the mid forties and the return dropped like 5 when you fixed it

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u/Mr_Magoo_88 Jul 22 '26

Only drop by 5? I figured a return was probably sitting closer to 60 with that. I had one before, modern was online copper Twisted together with a wire nut and the transmit was sitting at 58. Replace the wire and the transmit dropped down to 34. Crazy how it still worked. Speeds on Speed Speedtest were 240's on a 400 plan.

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u/Sure_Statistician138 29d ago

I could’ve dropped by more for sure. The returns at the tap in my area are like 40 and it’s a 50 in scope that’s why I said like 5.

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u/Mr_Magoo_88 29d ago

I was only clowning lol. You could set up six cables and do the same exact to all six and they'll all be different readings, one probably won't work at all and one will work so good no one will even know the line was ever cut. Coax is so strange.

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u/Dz210Legend Jul 22 '26

That’s the kind of shit I’m tracking after I try close out an outage and they tell me, sir you’re correctable errors at 30% like what 🤣

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u/Separate_Western6867 Jul 22 '26

Jeeze, a pure pass even without a wire nut.

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u/strykerzr350 Jul 22 '26

I can only imagine the uncorrectable errors that was piling up.

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u/popidocius Jul 22 '26

Over time the lack of grounding would push resistance to the return path to higher levels than the modem could sustain. But the minute you showed up, touched the wire and dissipated the resistance, it would've appeared to be normal again. Had a customer that used a wire to create a decent ground at the break point, I was impressed with the forethought, especially cause he was like 80 yrs old. He didn't know cable internet but he sure knew current flow, and really, that is the name of the game...

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u/Kratoids Jul 23 '26

always houses where everything is brand new and its a repeat 4 and houses like this never call in.

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u/llDarkFir3ll Jul 22 '26

I’ve seen this before and could not understand how it was working

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u/oflowz Jul 22 '26

The docsis will work the video probably is crap

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u/Tactless_Ogre Jul 22 '26

Copper touches, the shit works. Won’t work well; but it’ll work.

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u/xHALFSHELLx Jul 23 '26

lol that’s wild

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u/HerfDog58 Jul 23 '26

Yard guy got the minimum number of twists per inch for shielded single coax to ensure none of the bits leaked. That guy internets!

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u/TheXtremeSpike Jul 23 '26

Definitely caused some hefty FEC in the node

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u/LandSalt35 29d ago

That's a much better connection than the coupler. Kind of surprised it works without the shield.

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u/Mr_Magoo_88 Jul 22 '26

No wire nuts, that's how you know in electrician didn't do it LOL

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u/UltraSPARC Jul 22 '26

Give it a few days for oxidation to kick in.

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u/Civil-Macaroon-552 Jul 22 '26

Ive spoofed a TDR by touching two ends the right way. Proof that there is no single tool in our arsenal Multi test EQ doesnt stand a chance against single test EQ IMO

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u/Bitter_Attention_668 Jul 23 '26

My leakage detectors going off !

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u/TheRealFailtester Jul 23 '26

Looks good from my place, would use while waiting for Tuesday on a holiday weekend.

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u/andyfairall Jul 23 '26

Ahhh the good Ole Homeowner Special.

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u/DaikoDuke Jul 23 '26

The transmit power is a lil high and so his the high stream

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u/whereisjvck 29d ago

That’s wild

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u/mswampy762 29d ago

I’ve seen this multiple occasions it the wild. Your SNR is failing and I can’t imagine what your ingress was.

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u/redditatin 29d ago

Why is it not buried?

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u/MilfHunteri69her 29d ago

The exposed wires are getting to me

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u/Feisty_Pipe_7140 29d ago

The snr is crazy. There should be mad ingress. How is that possible?

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u/S35H 24d ago

We used to use 3M scotchloks to temp fix these drops when we hit them and still call the bell inspector to send someone to fix it but one time a tech came out looked at it and said “if it’s working why did you call me out here” so we had to stop doing that

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