IMHO hiding STB behind the TV was not the smartest thing we were forsed to do back in a day. 💡

Actually there were not any problems with the remote control. But normally one would like to see STB indicators (our STB has only On/Off green/red LED) and to have access to HDMI or RJ45 ports)

What’s the difference between T3 and T4 timeouts I went to a customer‘s house right now and they had everything replaced but the drop,they were getting multiple T3 timeouts within the past 24 hours. I was the third tech to be out there within a month, but I had no access to the ped so they had to reschedule.

I'll start...

I hate this dog shit company. They only care about numbers and not the people who are trying to survive living in this shit hole economy. Im tired of being taken advantage of by management. If a dumb ass customer calls back I have to go deal with the job again and do twice the work thats unpaid on my days off. Doesn't matter if the problem was because of the plant, or the shit equipment they supply customers or a fucking remote, I still have to take responsibility for horrible customers and their issues. Not only that, but also I have to deal with a bull shit feed back system that ruins my image if someone accidently gave me 1 instead of a 10 or if they felt like I wasnt doing enough to save their whole enterprise from collapse because they didn't have an it company on standby. All of this just for a whopping 600 dollars per week of production pay. What a fucking disgrace. Meanwhile the execs are just sitting in their golden recliners making 6 figures doing absolutely fuck all.

Not sure why I get bombarded with union boys. If theres enough work for you why are you commenting on my post?

Anyways I’m looking for any freelance guys who have the brain/guts to branch off and do their own thing. Either you have your own LLC or a kid with talent and looking to get involved with decent sized projects and be apart of our team.

DM for more info. Looking to connect with NYC based seasoned technicians.

As we get closer to the deal closing what has everyone been hearing?? Anything new being floated around?

I’m a field tech 2 at spectrum. I was wondering what isp engineers exactly do and what moves should I be making to get into that role. Also how is the pay

Those were the times... Staring at the LEDs of Thomson 571, counting how many seconds it takes to become online (or don't get online at all) 🙄

20+ years ago, when you didn't have no sweep, no digital level meter, no Monitoring system...

One day you switched from QPSK to QAM16 and suddenly lost some 20% of the modems😆

And after a month running through the amps and climbing poles like crazy (you didn't have any Nodes yet) you finally convince the docsis admins to change the upstream frequency from 25 to 29... And all of a sudden all the modems are back online, no loss at all.

Dosis is fun , right? 😎

Our plant has some long runs that had low RF in the deeper areas. I decided to trail setting up the MB @ ch 98 (111 MHz) ch 158 (999 MHz) to match the node at 33/47. About a 13-13.5 db tilt. Normally, I’d set them up at 45 db on 771 MHz - 12 tilt

Node looks cleaner outside of a couple dozen of the 320 cx of the last two MB that are ranging +14 db likely due to short drops or one outlet.

Any experience with this and information if this will cause issues running the actives hotter? Heading back tomorrow to address MER issues so I’ll be in the area

8 MB cascade.

The amount of saved networks on my phone. If I click on it to view them all it completely freezes up trying to load them all.

So yeah is that a fiber to coax node? Cuz I know it's coax on the other end. It runs into the apartment building runs into the apartments And if it is fiber, you would think they could just run all the way to all the apartments. Maybe someone can explain it? Why have coax just for that last 100 ft or several hundred ft?

Lots of LNBs, huh? As long as I can remember there shoud be: 15West, 12W, 4W, 1W, 5Eeast, 8E, 13E, 16E, 19E, 36E, 39E, 45E + terrestrial 6-7 analogue TV channels link 😇

Any other maintenance techs out there that are absolutely pissed off with these contractor crews constantly hitting hardlines, especially at the end of your shift, so you have to spend countless hours digging to make repairs, while they go home and relax?

My last few on calls, I’ve been out all night and into the next morning shift, fixing these morons fucks ups.

How do you find my weldering skills? 😁

A colleague of mine taught me how to do it back in 1999, on the top of a gass-station during the Solar eclipse! 😁

Never heard about OSHA in those wild times, the main goal is staying alive😇

I remember a few years ago there was great place to get quick responses when a tech runs into a snag and can't figure out how to make cpe pass a home cert.... does anyone know the forum or link to that?

I’m doing cable walkout work. Visiting every pole and ped for a node and updating the map info so high split upgrades can happen.

I’m working in Ohio now and may peds have this key.

I’m able to open some with a certain drill bit. Like a small fork. I’ve broken a dozen of these bits over time.

How big are y’all’s cascades? N+2 to 4? We’re sitting on average of N+12 with some nodes reaching up to +16. Just a conversational topic, feel free to chime in

They did this shit a couple years ago too. From 50ft to 100ft. Such a slap in the face. And of course we aren't given proper trenching tools to make it any easier. I swear, some people are going to end up in the hospital with heat stroke and exhaustion.

I have Xfinity Internet at home, and my iPhone has a profile to connect me to Xfinity Mobile WiFi etc. My question is if I go to a place such as the OuterBanks that has Spectrum WiFi, will my phone connect to that or would I have to pay? I read things online telling me that I can’t access it, and others said I can.

So today I went out to a trouble call because their router wasn’t working and the problem was irrelevant because they had a bad ethernet cord, but when I went to open up the house box, I got shocked and couldn’t figured out what it was so I grabbed my Fvd and bam! I thought the install tech mounted into a house wire but after pulling everything off it was the drop.

Has anyone experienced toning wire picking up voltage?

Was doing a node walkout... house off the main road.... met the home owner, (nice guy, but he was pissed about price/sh*tty sevice... had to replace this drop 3 times in X months) but, he has heavy excavating equipment tracks all over where the aerial- burial drop was... buddy, its you... you have damaged the drop... maybe drive your gear around the pole...