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Posted by Timothy Daniels on August 13, 2006, 9:07 pm
"Chuck Reti" wrote:
> A couple of months ago, a Comcast tech came to check on my
> report of marginal signal levels, -5 down , 55 up.
> After he inspected the drop, and used a pair of pliers, not a wrench,
> to tighten (and chew up) all visible F connectors, he stuck a digital
> meter on the line and pronounced that all was "normal." I opened
> up the Motorola 5100's Config Manager Signal page to show him
> what the modem was reading. He said, "how do you get that?"
> and that no one had ever showed him that you view levels that way.
> While there was nothing more he could do on site, my levels
> magically improved a few weeks later, but probably not as any
> result of the service call.
After about 20 years of dealing with cable and satellite TV
installers in 2 different cities, I no longer think of installers as
"technicians", but rather as "hooker uppers". I mean if a
hooker upper learns something and gets good, why should
he/she remain a cable installer? Satellite system installation
seems to require a bit more intelligence, and entire building
(Multi-Dwelling Unit) satellite installations a step or two above
that. Those that remain cable hooker uppers are those that
never learned more than that.
*TimDaniels*
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