2008-03-02, 06:12 AM
For over a year I've been struggling to fix an intermittent audio problem on some of the digital channels from my cable STB. Four times a different "Cable guy" has knocked at the door tells me my signal is within the limits and there is no problem. Then I show him the stations that don't get sound. They go through drill of jiggling cables etc and the sound comes back and the guy leaves.
Anyway on Wednesday # 5 comes "fixes" the problem and I come home to find that the cable to my computer isn't working, in fact 3 of the 5 cableco installed lines aren't working.
Finally yesterday, number 6 comes and he solves the problem. First of all brainiac # 5 had switched the input signal to the output line on a splitter. He said that was because in their sealed junction box I had a 4 way and 3 two way spliiters and he was able to remove 2 useless splits. On top of that he said the 4 way splitter was old and needed to be replaced AND it was only rated to 600 Mhz when digital cable needs 1 Ghz.
Now everything is great. The big side effect is my HVR 1600 now gets clear QAM reception, no dropouts or pixelation with an 8db signal gain some of which I've been blaming on bad drivers. Sorry Hauppauge.
Martin
Anyway on Wednesday # 5 comes "fixes" the problem and I come home to find that the cable to my computer isn't working, in fact 3 of the 5 cableco installed lines aren't working.
Finally yesterday, number 6 comes and he solves the problem. First of all brainiac # 5 had switched the input signal to the output line on a splitter. He said that was because in their sealed junction box I had a 4 way and 3 two way spliiters and he was able to remove 2 useless splits. On top of that he said the 4 way splitter was old and needed to be replaced AND it was only rated to 600 Mhz when digital cable needs 1 Ghz.
Now everything is great. The big side effect is my HVR 1600 now gets clear QAM reception, no dropouts or pixelation with an 8db signal gain some of which I've been blaming on bad drivers. Sorry Hauppauge.
Martin