<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 20, 2017 8:44 PM, "Gary Buhrmaster" <<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:54 PM, Gary Buhrmaster<br>
<<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="quoted-text">> Are you also a HSI customer? What is your current<br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Must be a little slow today -- at first thought HSI was some sort of acronym for Home Shopping xxxx, as a slight on Radio Shack equipment, which used to be better before they tried to widen their market and imploded.</div><div dir="auto"> Yes, I get my internet from Comcast, but I wouldn't call it high speed, unless compared to the DSL I used to have -- dumped that when I had to reconnect my modem to get a faster data rate!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">
> configuration from the demark in (what do you<br>
> need to feed (and to where))?<br>
<br>
</div>Oh, and do you have voice via your cable provider<br></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> No. Cut that cord completely.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
(the need to support emergency calling during a<br>
power failure requires some different design points<br>
for amplifiers, which can be addressed multiple<br>
ways, but the easiest is not having to deal with<br>
it at all :-)).</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> Yeah, the demark test would be a hassle.</div><div dir="auto"> As for a description of the connection, it starts with Comcast's cheapest cable buried from distribution post at the back corner of my lot along the fence line to the side of the house. As I recall, there are at least two splices in that line because I cut it while mowing when they took 9 months to bury it (then sent a guy out with a shovel and a barrel connector -- not even electrical tape) and the second is because they cut it below the service entrance box rather than knock on the door to say the police department reported RF interference in the area and try to fix it. Can't recall what the issue really was, or even if it originated in my service, but they just spliced another foot of cable on rather than pull a new line drop. %-(</div><div dir="auto"> In the SE box is a splitter to separate the Internet and video feeds. The video enters at the top of the basement wall and runs about 10 feet to where all my connections/distribution HW are. Most TV connections are abandoned and unused ports on distribution amp (combo "low noise" amp and 1:4 splitter) were terminated with F-connector terminators (probably from Radio Shack, too). Yesterday I replaced that with a passive 1:2 splitter I had on-hand. Feed from there to Ceton runs about 15 feet and then up two stories (basement ceiling to second floor baseboard), maybe another 12 feet to a wallplate barrel connector; total run from splitter to wallplate ~27 feet. Another run of about 10 feet along two walls reaches the combination surge arrestor/outlet strip. (It has surge arrestor options for RJ-11, RJ-15, F-connectors, besides protecting the 120VAC.) A short drop cable from there connects to the Ceton box. Cable jackets mostly just say CATV, except the one to the Ceton, which is RG-59/U.</div><div dir="auto"> I should add that the video problems appeared on the tv connected to the Comcast settop box, too. Haven't been on the passive splitter long enough to be sure, but so far picture has been stable.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto">Craig.</div><div dir="auto"></div></div>