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[QUOTE="HoustonCuse, post: 116811, member: 87"]
I think they are testing signal strength when they do this. I am not an expert though, so I could be wrong about that.

With my own cable provider, I have issues of low speed and drop outs over the years that have been related to:
- They had a piece of equipment somewhere on the network that would reset every day at a certain time and it would take up to an hour for them to bring it back online (went on for two weeks before they clued into it)
- The buried cable the goes from the outdoor cable junction box to my house had some damage (they found this with signal strength monitoring like you mention).
-Something wrong inside the outdoor cable junction box.

Currently I noticed that the buried cable from the junction box to my house is exposed for about 2 inches of its run and this two inches is on the edge of a flower bed where the lawn guys use an edger. Only a matter of time before it gets chopped up.

I had a tech tell me one time that they had a customer who had drop outs in his service and they came out dozens of times and could never find anything wrong. Finally they somehow realized that a cop was parking under their lines and trying to catch speeders. His radar gun was interfering with the signal on the lines (EMI I assume). So whenever Barnie Fife was in his little hidey-hole this guy lost internet access. The provider had no way to fix this other than ask the cop if he would move to a different hiding spot. He refused so the guy was SOL...
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