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reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 09:49 AM by metaldemon2000
reply to post by mkross1983





What would you say would be wrong with a new community built in 2005 (house as well) with no issues of this occuring up until a week and a half ago?


No in fact new neighborhoods sometimes see the most trouble for a couple of reasons.

1. All the lines are buried. Buried lines have a quarter of the lifespan of aerial wires, especially those used to connect the house from the main distribution cables.

2. The ground hasnt settled yet, as the ground settles the wires underground are subjected to pressure and are rubbed against rocks or are twisted and contorted. If you live in an area where the ground freezes in winter this makes it worse.

3. Alot of time construction that is occuring up the street may be responsible for cable cuts or sometimes the cables are just slightly nicked and tossed back into the ground because the contractors do not want to assume responsibility as they are chargd the price of the repair. Many people also landspace their yards and most people arent aware that their buried service wire connected to their house is located a mere inches below the grass.

4. Finally, all services must come from a node or main point of transmission. YOu might see them scattered abiout your neighborhoods they are large brown, grey or green boxes that stand roughly 4 feet above ground. In new neighborhoods that are located beside or near older neighborhoods, the cable that feeds the new neighborhood is usually branched off from the older cables that run from the central office to the connection boxes, this means that while the cable underground in your neighborhood may be 2 years old, the cables that feed the connection point may be as old as 20 years.

Trust me when i say that communication systems are not perfect, and unlike hydro transmission, if there is a very slight problem with the line, you will hear and see all sorts of weird stuff. Telephone lines get crossed all the time, pictures get fuzzy and yes even internet takes a crap. If all three of your services (phone, int, tv,) are fed through the same source, either phone line or cable line, all three will be affected at once.


reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 09:54 AM by ItsAllRelative
reply to post by edgecrusher2199



I agree; just think about the odds of this. Many people would never think about something like who is having problems with cable connection unless someone else points it out. We have been having cable problems for years where I live in New Jersey and we have told it's...squirrels. Not to belittle the conversation, but there's probably what, at least 2 or 3 percent of the population having cable problems at one time or another; by itself, probably not a telltale sign unless there were consistent problems across consistent parts of the world; stands to reason?



reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 09:56 AM by mkross1983
Originally posted by metaldemon2000
reply to
post by mkross1983





What would you say would be wrong with a new community built in 2005 (house as well) with no issues of this occuring up until a week and a half ago?


No in fact new neighborhoods sometimes see the most trouble for a couple of reasons.

1. All the lines are buried. Buried lines have a quarter of the lifespan of aerial wires, especially those used to connect the house from the main distribution cables.

2. The ground hasnt settled yet, as the ground settles the wires underground are subjected to pressure and are rubbed against rocks or are twisted and contorted. If you live in an area where the ground freezes in winter this makes it worse.

3. Alot of time construction that is occuring up the street may be responsible for cable cuts or sometimes the cables are just slightly nicked and tossed back into the ground because the contractors do not want to assume responsibility as they are chargd the price of the repair. Many people also landspace their yards and most people arent aware that their buried service wire connected to their house is located a mere inches below the grass.

4. Finally, all services must come from a node or main point of transmission. YOu might see them scattered abiout your neighborhoods they are large brown, grey or green boxes that stand roughly 4 feet above ground. In new neighborhoods that are located beside or near older neighborhoods, the cable that feeds the new neighborhood is usually branched off from the older cables that run from the central office to the connection boxes, this means that while the cable underground in your neighborhood may be 2 years old, the cables that feed the connection point may be as old as 20 years.

Trust me when i say that communication systems are not perfect, and unlike hydro transmission, if there is a very slight problem with the line, you will hear and see all sorts of weird stuff. Telephone lines get crossed all the time, pictures get fuzzy and yes even internet takes a crap. If all three of your services (phone, int, tv,) are fed through the same source, either phone line or cable line, all three will be affected at once.


Good info! Thanks for the post!

In fact, we actually have a lot of this going on right now. Construction across the street and in the community as well. House was built in 2005 though so it has been a couple of years. Just weird issues are showing up only recently. But this is good information I never knew so thanks.


reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 10:00 AM by mkross1983
Originally posted by ItsAllRelative
reply to
post by edgecrusher2199



I agree; just think about the odds of this. Many people would never think about something like who is having problems with cable connection unless someone else points it out. We have been having cable problems for years where I live in New Jersey and we have told it's...squirrels. Not to belittle the conversation, but there's probably what, at least 2 or 3 percent of the population having cable problems at one time or another; by itself, probably not a telltale sign unless there were consistent problems across consistent parts of the world; stands to reason?


Yes and I understand what you guys are saying. It's a combination of the timing and the frequency in which the issue is occurring without statements from any of the cable/internet providers and the fact the issues started about the same time and appear to be wide spread. Those are the things that got me questioning.


reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 10:41 AM by Boogley
reply to post by SEEWHATUDO



Actually, I have mediacom cable tv and it's been complete static for a few days now. I contacted mediacom and they gave me the same bs and told me someone will be out here in a week to fix it. (if they even show -_-) I don't know if it's related to uh.. you know.. but my cable did go out. (South west GA, btw.)

I never trusted mediacom and got my internet through AT&T. (My boyfriend is also an over the phone internet tech so it's easy to keep out acct in check too, haha.) But no problems with internet lately.

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reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 11:36 AM by tylervw
reply to post by SEEWHATUDO



DirecTV in Iowa, while watching SNF last night.



reply posted on 13-10-2008 @ 11:49 AM by mkross1983
Originally posted by tide88
Originally posted by mkross1983
Originally posted by tide88
No offense, but if you took a random sample of people throughout the world many would report having cable outages or interference on their radios. I have been having random cable outages ever since cable was offered, and radio interference .


I agree. But this has only occurred within the past two weeks and previously had not been an issue. The frequency of the issue is what made me post this thread and obviously from the other posters, I am not the only one having issues. If you read the other posts you will see the issues are new for them as well. I understand there are interruptions from time to time obviously.
Again if you post on any forum anywhere on the internet at any time of the year and ask if anyone is having problems with their cable you will get the same amount of responses. You could ask any number of questions. Who here has had a stomach ache in the past two weeks, a fever, lost power, stubbed their toe, etc. Cable goes out all the time. I have cable and dtv. You would think that if it were some kind of spaceship it would have more effect on DTV then it would on cable and my DTV picture has been perfect. Now if you lose you cell phone signal, radio signal, cable, and dtv signal that is when a thread should be started and we should start to worry, but cable problems...


I never mentioned anything about October 14 being the cause of the issue. I was looking into how wide spread the issue was.

Also, other posters with Direct TV had had issues and cell phones seem to be having problems as well.

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