Happens to me all the time here in Rochester.
Do you have a cable box?
Yes. It's a Cisco 8742HDC.
Interesting. In Syracuse, They own the line. We’ve done it so much, the last guy installed a connection point outside the house so they no longer have to fish the new wire into the house. Saves a time of time when they need to replace the outside wire.
Yup., very common problem in CNY. It is a sign your signal is not solid.
Conduit is definitely the way to go if it's underground. One, it's protected, and two, if there's a pronlem later, they can just fish a new line through.
I've gotten a little stuttering on all channels, but a few channels, e.g., 17 - TBS - are really bad. ESPNU and ACCN have been pretty good. On the other hand, I've had frequent Internet drop-outs and even a few auto-reboots by my cable box. I'm just about ready to move to FIOS!
I had issues with TWC then Spectrum for a while, until I read about the requirements of digital phone. While internet service is more prone to outages related to hardware (physical cable, connections, distro boxes), digital phone seems to have more stringent uptime requirements for 911 usage. The guidance was to sub to digital phone for a month. Get them to come out to hook it up.
I actually dug the ditch by hand for both power and cable. I put both lines in separate conduit. It took a couple of days but it was worth it. Spectrum left me a roll of cable long enough to reach the pole next to the road and to the new house. No charge. The cable was bright Orange. How appropriate!!
The orange is the best cable right now. Going on 4 years with orange. Don’t think I got more that 2 years with black and then white cable,
I have Orange too, and it's been ok. But starting to pixelate and get IT dropouts. Tech visits don't always solve the signal problem ... my surmise is that this is b/c they measure signal strength at one moment in time - usually in the middle of the day when demand is not at peak (like it is at 8 or 9 pm). But I could be wrong on that.
