dmention7
Hater
cable internet question!
So, on a whim I decided to redo a bit of the coax routing in my house--not much, but I replaced the crusty old 4-way splitter that fed my living room and bedrooms from the main drop with a nice shiny 5-2000MHz splitter, ditched an old splitter that was being used merely as a M-M coupler inline with the cable modem, and capped off any open connections with proper terminators.
Now, it could just be a coincidence, but a month or so ago, I was getting 6000kbps down and 1.8kpbs up consistently on a couple different speed test sites at different times of day--now I'm hitting 8000-11000 down and 2000-5000 up depending on which sites I use and the time of day. Sounds good so far... but when I checked my cable modems diagnostic settings, I noticed that the bit error rate has been holding steady for several days at ~1.1-1.3%, which seems awfully high. I didn't take note of the level before the cabling tweaks, but I don't think it was that high.
Anyways, the rest of the diagnostic numbers seem good according to several broadband references: downstream SNR: 37.X dB, received signal strength: -6.3 dBmV (up from 11-12 before I removed a splitter from the line), output power level: 47-48 dB. I haven't found any direct references to what the bit error rate "should" be, but I've seen several indirect mentions that make it seem like mine is orders of magnitude too high.
Suggestions?
So, on a whim I decided to redo a bit of the coax routing in my house--not much, but I replaced the crusty old 4-way splitter that fed my living room and bedrooms from the main drop with a nice shiny 5-2000MHz splitter, ditched an old splitter that was being used merely as a M-M coupler inline with the cable modem, and capped off any open connections with proper terminators.
Now, it could just be a coincidence, but a month or so ago, I was getting 6000kbps down and 1.8kpbs up consistently on a couple different speed test sites at different times of day--now I'm hitting 8000-11000 down and 2000-5000 up depending on which sites I use and the time of day. Sounds good so far... but when I checked my cable modems diagnostic settings, I noticed that the bit error rate has been holding steady for several days at ~1.1-1.3%, which seems awfully high. I didn't take note of the level before the cabling tweaks, but I don't think it was that high.
Anyways, the rest of the diagnostic numbers seem good according to several broadband references: downstream SNR: 37.X dB, received signal strength: -6.3 dBmV (up from 11-12 before I removed a splitter from the line), output power level: 47-48 dB. I haven't found any direct references to what the bit error rate "should" be, but I've seen several indirect mentions that make it seem like mine is orders of magnitude too high.
Suggestions?
