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Ahh, good 'ol Directional Coupler's Yeah those splitters can help greatly in some situations. There is one drawback, the way that splitter works is that it actually drops more signal on one leg but less on the tap leg. Some of the more common type of these are DC-9 and DC-6 (DC stands for Directional Coupler). A DC-9 would drop 9dBmV on the 'out' leg and would drop nearly nothing on the tap leg... DC-6 would lose 6dBmV (compare that to a normal two way splitter that loses 3.5dBmV on all legs or a 4 way that loses 7 on all legs.) These range from 6dBmV all the way to a 30dBmV loss on the 'out' leg. The thing is, signal loss isn't always bad... there is a range you need to be in, too much signal can be just as fatal as not enough -- and if you are having a problem that is this bad it may come down to a 'real' tech with a signal meter. Below is a little pic of a couple of DC splitters, there are the tap leg type and the wall type that is typically behind a wallplate. A little (well actually huge) side note :: If you are having this much trouble you may want to ask your cable company to send an in house tech... sometimes contractors don't have the customers best interest in mind (they sometimes just want to finish the job and get paid.. unfortunately this means rushing through a job and passing the problem on to the next tech.. very sad but that's how allot of these contractors work.) When I worked for Cox as a tech the contractors were only allowed to do install, I was very disappointed to hear that they started sending these guys to do trouble calls... there are some good ones out there, but the majority don't know what they are doing and are very under qualified. ... the good news is that you can request an in house tech, but you have to make sure of something. Sometimes the message does not get conveyed so you have to make sure of a couple of things, when the tech comes out make sure he's wearing a Cox shirt (some of them may say Cox on them... but will also have the name of the contracting company next to that so be careful), also make sure that he is in a Cox truck, not just a truck that has a Cox magnet on it.. If you are unsure of what company the tech 'actually' works for... ask him "Are you a contractor." -- if he says yes, tell him "Sorry, nothing personal but I requested an in-house-tech... I have had too many problems with contractors in the past, goodbye." -- then call Cox and let them know exactly what happened. Because some contractors are scandalous and will report the job as done (and get paid for it)... even though you turned them away. Repeat this process as many times as it takes to get a real in-house Cox tech in your home. They are almost a rare breed these days (much cheaper for companies to contract the work out, than have to pay an in-house tech wages, insurance, benefits, tools, driving expenses, etc.). Cox actually works very hard to find contractors that aren't doing things the right way, and I have seen many contractors lose their right to contract with Cox... but they are still out there and it will always be a battle because these guys just want to get in and out as fast as they can to make the $$. Just beware... haha

here is a little article you might find a little help in... http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-11976 -- let us know if this does or doesn't help.

opened quickly for me too -- games and movies loaded fast on my 9Mbps connection.

read the guide at http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-11976 -- it may have the answer you need -- let me know in this thread if this answers your question.. otherwise let me know in this thread if you have any more questions - Damon

try again.. that may have been when I was rebooting the SQL server

let me know if this is resolved on your end....

Written in response to the question: Answer: I'm going to pretend you never talked about illegal cable, lol... that sounds like the installers problem for not noticing . At any rate, I worked for a cable company for nearly 5 years part of that time I was a tech. A huge portion of bad connection problems well more like the majority of bad connection problems are problems with the customers end. Meaning the problem is almost always inside. Cables, splitters, routers.. etc. -- a splitter is always an issue. Splitters can go bad.. some pretty easy over the course of a few years and others that are up in attics may last decades. Some splitters may only have problems with curtain frequencies, the normal television frequencies are less noticeable but the digital part of the spectrum is easier effected and always more noticeable. Guess which splitters I most consistently saw that were bad... (evil) Radio Shack along with other generic splitters. The splitters that were installed by company techs were almost never bad. Soooo.. when you need a splitter go right to the source... your cable company should have these available to you at their 'front counter', 'payment center' or 'sales center' -- and usually free, and they give cables out too. Reason they are free... they don't want to come to your house! Even if your paying for a service call your cable company STILL loses money to roll a truck to your house... Change out the splitter... if that doesn't do it check and make sure your coax cable (cable tv cable) has no cuts, nicks, sharp bends. Also, check the ends and make sure that the ends look good. The copper core should extend past the connector, but only about 2-3mm. eliminate other splitters from the line, each splitter will drop your signal levels. Even just two splits in a row can cause a connection to go out... 3 is almost always very bad. death to all crappy cables - if you have a cable that came with your tv.. throw it AWAY. Very bad and improperly shielded, signal litterally leaks out of them.. and other radio signals leak in. Get the cables recommended by your provider, they will usually give these to you for free.. again... at their 'front counter', 'payment center' or 'sales center' lastly, before calling your cable company take out a screw driver and walk over to the wall plate your cable comes out of. Unscrew it and inspect the connection and cables behind the wallplate, check the connectors (look below at the images of good and bad 'RG6 F connectors') also check and make sure the cable in the wall has no kinks or cuts... you may also want to give the cable in the wall a tiny tug and see if there is a splitter in the wall (old loop systems are ran like that).. if there is one.. change it If all else fails.. call the cable company

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I am actually testing lower than normal.. but my connection is running lower than normal right now :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 8002 Kbps about 8 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Download Speed is:: 977 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (server1) Test Time:: Fri Feb 17 2006 00:06:02 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 143X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.05 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 94.55 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-GSTX0B372 I will look at at a few things though and make sure there is no problems with the test...

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Newegg is the BEST!!! Nice post..

micorsoft anti-spyware -- http://www.testmy.net/forum/t-11804 I haven't got the Windows Defender version yet though.. I need to do that

yeah I fixed that.. I just couldn't find the thread again so I didn't post that I fixed it

I will get opera and try it in there... and adjust accordingly

cool... worked out fine, link is in place, thanks

how did you get it to do that? I've never seen that... try clearing your cache and hitting the site again. I will have to try the blank gif thing

Yeah, DSL isn't quite as uncap friendly as cable (well, cable used to be)... It's not worth looking into dude, huge waste of time... and a possible blacklist if you succeed. People do get caught, and can in some cases find it hard to get a high-speed connection in the future.

yeeeep

clear your cache

I made this the default

lol

I have added another theme... it's the original look with the new theme -- check it out it's called "origianl look"

I restarted mySQL that should stop happening

yeah, that server is going down for a reboot in a second.. it's all that servers fault! lol

something strange is happening with server1 -- i am looking into this.. till I figure it out all tests will be routed to the working server