Paul M Foster wrote:
> michael hast wrote:
>> Okay. this question is not so much a Linux question as a
>> networking/modem question, but you guys are a bright bunch, and I
>> know that it's not beyond your abilities. Since I moved all of my
>> computers from the living room to the home office, my browsing speed
>> has dramatically decreased. I didn't want to mess with the cable
>> company to get another jack put in, so I just teed off from where
>> they had it coming through the wall and ran a cable through the attic
>> to get to the home office. There is a TV in here, and the signal is
>> quite fuzzy when we ever turn it on (suffice it to say less than
>> frequently). I'm kind of thinking that the cheap-o coaxial tees that
>> I purchased may be the culprit, but I have to also wonder if the
>> teeing itself is my problem. I know they make cable signal boosters,
>> but I haven't heard of anybody using such a devise upstream of a
>> cable modem. Have any of you used one of these things in an
>> application like this? I would just hate to waste the money if that
>> wouldn't work. Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Other suggestions in this thread are probably good, but I wonder about
> something. For DSL, you have to have filters on the phones because DSL
> uses sidebands. I'm wondering if cable internet doesn't do the same
> thing. In which case, one question might be whether splitters and
> repeaters and such actually capture the sidebands as well. For
> example, if a component on the line effectively splits the signal but
> doesn't respond very well in the area of the sidebands, you may have
> the type of difficulty you describe.
>
> Another thing to look at is whether you're getting a lot of dropped or
> malformed packets as a result of this. A program like tcpdump or
> ethereal might tell you that.
>
> But in the end, I think the cat5 suggestion is the best. You can pull
> the cable back from the office with a cord taped to the office end.
> Then when you get it out of the wall, attach your cat5 to the package
> and pull it back through using the cord. Now you have both coax and
> cat5 in the office. And maybe not have to go back into the attic. ;-}
If pulling the Cat5 is a pain, you could always put a wireless router on
the cable modem, and a wireless adapter in your rolling cabinet. That
would also let you roll your cabinet wherever you like, instead of tying
it to the end of your newly-run Cat5.
--ronan
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