Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 12/18/06, Richard Smoot <rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Who is your provider?
Cox. I don't believe we have RR or Brighthouse service in this area.
>> My connection comes from the street to a fairly good
>> size box outside the house. The cables for TV and the Cable modem come
>> into my house to differant rooms. The cable modem connection is
>> exclusively
>> meant for it. No splitters or amplifiers should be used on that
>> connection.
>> Never attach a TV to it.
There is one cable that comes into my house, and they told me to split it.
>
> That is the way mine does, they put the box on the outside of the
> house, the
> cable was brought through the wall to a mounting board for all of the
> cable
> and network stuff. The short run from the cable d-mark to the first
> splitter was
> about 1.5 feet, they installed a two port splitter, one to the TV;s
> and one to
> the modem. That is the way it is. On the TV port I have a 4 port
> splitter for
> the TV signals.
Initially, our modem was about 4 feet off the two port splitter, 1.5
feet off the d-mark. The other side of the splitter was a ~20' run to
the singular TV in the home. All of that equipment (cables, splitter,
modem) was provided by Cox. They even included a cute little diagram
showing that installation configuration.
>
>> If you are talking about the TV cable connections, the frequencies
>> involved
>> start somewhere above 49mhz and go up to somewhere around 800mhz.
>>
>
> I have the SOHO package, the commercial data rides on carriers at about
> 600 Mhz. I understand the regular home rr links run in the spectrum of 5
> to 49 Mhz, when I got the SOHO service the engineer they sent out to
> inspect
> it told me that I did not share the same spectrum as the home rr
> service, and
> showed me a screen dump of the modem parameters including freqs, and
> he told me about the differences between the business and home services.
>
> Indeed the service has been pretty reliable. I use Vonage on it and it is
> always there.
>
>
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