Had the Time Warner guy come by today to install EarthLink Cable Internet.
When he first tested it, my cable connection was terrible, we went down stairs, used a special splitter and then tested it again, fine in the family room, go into my room, and its still terrible, so bad, in fect, I cant have Cable Internet.
Apperantly Earth Link can run best at a +7 and can still run at a -10, after going all the way into my room, even with the special splitters, I was at a -15. There was no way I was told I could use that line.
They gave me two options:
1. Pay $50.00 an hour, per man (needed 2) to install a new line inside the house.
2. Pay $5.00 an hour, per man (needed 2) to install a new line outside of the house.
My mom wasnt crazy about the idea at all, so now I cant get cable internet cause my house sucks so bad.
I guess DSL is my only other alternative.
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 Aug 3 2005, 4:15 am
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Aug 3 2005, 4:19 am
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Strawgate
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Or, get them to install Time Warner Cable High Speed Online. My connection is upstairs, and the router is in the basement. My connection is extremely fast.
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No I dont think you understand, the quality of my cable connection in my house is soo poor, I cant use any form of broadband internet. He said both Earth Link and Road Runner work with the same standards.
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Look, lol, I will say it one more time, all the connections in my house. ALL the cable connections in my house have too much of a weak signal for me to use it. Even if I used a wireless transmitter from my bastment, the connection would still be so crappy, it wouldnt be worth the $40.00 a month.
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You should hire someone to rewire your house, if the cable gets out it doesnt matter what connection you have, it should make it faster.
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If you get a router, you can buy additional range extenders(I think one would suffice), as well as things like other signal boosters. Getting a connection throughout your house would be easy, if you're willing to fork over some extra cash.
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Why let THEM do it? buy 20 meters of cable and do it yourself :D, attach the wires to the ceiling, or walls or something
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Meh for my house I would need a good 200 meters. I would rather have them feed it through the walls then meh...
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Have you tried DSL before? I hate to tell you this, but if your cable lines are fraked up, then there's a good chance your phone lines will be, too, and DSL is far more susceptible to signal loss than cable connections are.
...and for almost everybody replying below, nothing he does inside the house is going to help. If I'm reading correctly, the problem is the quality of the connection coming in over the cable line. No matter what provider he goes with, or what method he uses to get the signal from the cable line to his computer and back, it's going to be over the same cable connection. | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
...and for almost everybody replying below, nothing he does inside the house is going to help. If I'm reading correctly, the problem is the quality of the connection coming in over the cable line. No matter what provider he goes with, or what method he uses to get the signal from the cable line to his computer and back, it's going to be over the same cable connection. He said it was fine in the family room, so it must be at least a decent cable connection. Hiead | |
Ah, I missed that part... that's very messed up, and probably why I missed that part. :P It just doesn't make sense. Cable signal should not degrade that way unless the length of coaxial cable is bad in some way, and you just get another length of cable for that, same as the one that was being used. That's not an installation job. Even then, there's plenty of other options... even if wireless doesn't work, put a wired router right at the point of entry and run a reeeeally long ethernet cable.
I do understand why the cable guy didn't suggest any of those, though. :P He wasn't paying for home networking, he was paying for cable internet. Not only will most internet providers not help you do anything to split up your connection if you're not buying their home networking package, but some of them will claim you're violating the TOS and physically disconnect you. | |
Not exactly. If the connection to the family room is okay, then i would suggest taking that connection to a router that would split the connection between them. Oftentimes, there's one specific cable to hook up to to provide best performance(in my house, it happens to be on the EXACT opposite side of the building), and I've got a hunch that that would either be in the family room or the master bedroom.
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