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Cable goes out after it rains
Name: Professor Xavier Date: June 22, 2005 at 19:22:56 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro. Corp. Ed. CPU/Ram: 900mHz Intel Celeron / 25
Comment:
Can anybody tell my why my cable internet connectivity fails only after a rain storm. No lightning, just rain, and now no cable. And is there any way to prevent this from happening? What do corpotations do to prevent this?
ISP = Brighthouse Networks
There i stood in the park, thinking and watching as the frisbee grew bigger . . . then it hit me . . .
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: June 23, 2005 at 05:17:57 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds as if what is happening the rain is getting in at a connection somewhere along the route, check any splices that you may see just outside the house, there should be a splice with a ground wire coming out of it, tighten the connectors back up if that is the case otherwise your provider would need to send out a tech and scan the feed with an O.T.D.R. in order to find the fault, if I were you and couldnt find the problem right away I would put it in there lap.........
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