So, it’s been a while since I’ve written anything.
In brief, we bought a house, we painted everything we could (and couldn’t) reach. It’s been a long couple of weeks.
So, we finally moved in a little over a week ago. As any other person living in a technological age, we needed to get our cable hooked up. The previous owner of the house hacked some stuff together that resembles full-home coax. What I don’t understand, is the need to have 3 outlets in each bedroom? …
Anyway, the installer comes out, troops around a little bit, leaves the toilet set up, and gets some stuff working. The basement has all the connections… 9 rooms. 1 incoming connection. That’s a 9 way split. (Coax hub?) So, we get the living room working and the plasma has a good signal again… my wife finds some MTV drama to watch, and we continue to get the internet working in the office.
Now, I realize that there’s 9 outlets in the house. That’s sweet. There’s even one in the kitchen that we’ll probably never use. So, what does your installer do? Apparently he only connects to random outlets. We get the internet working upstairs, and then he calls in for the rx/tx/sma information… saying he wants to see all greens .. the answer back tx is in the red, reading 55. My whole life while writing serial communications, tx means transmission. Anyway, 55 is in the red. We wanted it in the green apparently. So, back to the basement he goes.
He tries a few things, with some ‘creative’ splices. The end result, tx in the red still, but at 52. He told me that this means my modem is putting out ” too much power”…. No idea. I noticed last night it’s a little doggy. And his reasoning why we couldn’t get that number any lower? Solar Wind. The #1 reason for anything going shady.