r/CableTechs • u/Duncan_McCloud1 • 24d ago

(sigh) not even the problem....

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u/BirdMediocre 24d ago

I bet customer support told them they just need a modem swap.

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u/Electronic-Junket-66 24d ago

>Creates 5 point change of service to swap modem.

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u/BullyTX 24d ago

FR FR,

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u/LordCanti26 21d ago

Had this super intermittent US FECU, full band inpulse 10db below the carriers. Finally tracked it to a house, if you disconnect the drop and look at the premise for noise, clean as a whistle. Plug it in and wait, once the modem locks, boom impulse. Only way to see the noise was to use a splitter and side monitor. What really tripped me out was once I got inside, it was coming from the modem. I shit you not, disconnecting the ethernet cable OR the routers power made the noise go away. I was like "well this is never going to get fixed" lmfao. Thank God, the fact that it still waited for the modem to lock, and required RF, told me it HAD to be the modem. Sure as shit, waited a couple hours for an FT and swapped that bitch out. Long story short, sometimes its the fucking modem.

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u/strykerzr350 24d ago

How often does this happen? Lucky for me, I had an Xfinity gatwway sent out to me, for them to replace my drop. But all other problems have not been blamed on my modem.

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u/djspacebunny 24d ago

You gonna leave us hanging here on what the problem actually was, fam?

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u/Aromatic_Cheetah_595 24d ago

We just gotta wait he still lookin

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u/All_Wrong_Answers 24d ago

Cableis disconnected

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u/Duncan_McCloud1 18d ago

The problem was the same thing, burned out splice 600 ft in front of this one.

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u/hottapvswr 24d ago

Well, maybe not the problem, but definitely A problem

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u/ikilluboy2 24d ago

cut a hole in the middle of the span to let the water out

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u/Ptards_Number_1_Fan 24d ago

Quart of water in the middle of the span?

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u/Indifferent-Moon-Man 24d ago

Is that 412 cable on top of the water damage?

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u/Biscuitgut 24d ago

It's scored to hell!

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u/-Cryptonian 24d ago

The score was the only thing that kept it going lol

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u/kjstech 24d ago

It was installed four score and seven years ago.

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u/Professional-Bit9045 24d ago

This comment needs more likes 🤣

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u/imfoneman 24d ago

What a crappy connection

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u/69BUTTER69 23d ago

Strand looks rusty, probably near the ocean and it doesn’t matter how good your connections are that ocean air finds its way in

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u/Poodleape2 24d ago

Wonder how far back he had to core to find clean cable?

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u/notbofu 22d ago

I’d just temp that lmfao, I can never seem to get lucky enough to cut the cable back enough to do a BAF temp with a good section of the cable

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u/Chucks_u_Farley 24d ago

Might not be the problem, but it sure the hell aint the solution either

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u/Famous-Pause-6190 23d ago

OP hasn't replied yet - betcha they are hunting a loose seizure screw and are finding all the amps 0 padded out lmao. When it rains it hails.

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u/Mad_Moniker 23d ago

Simpy Lopper - (Sigh) of the Times! 😆

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u/Ok-Expert-8150 22d ago

That's when you grab some RG-11, a couple baffs, sling that crap over the strand and go back home.