Great sadness invades the Tara household as I suffer through continual internet connectivity problems. I’ve had intermittent trouble since Comcast hooked everything up a mere week or so ago. My connection constantly disappears, I have to power cycle my cable modem all the time, and it just keeps getting worse. Today it got so bad that I couldn’t connect at all. How are you writing this post then, you ask?
Well. I removed the splitter from the cable wire. I have a 3-way splitter with one cable coming to my modem, one to the Motorola HD cable box/DVR and one to my TiVo. Every split diminishes the signal strength. And my modem doesn’t seem to like this low signal strength. At least I have a work around. But I must keep my DVRs fed with streams of TV data, so I can only log on when there’s nothing on TV I want to record. This must be fixed!
I called Comcast yesterday and the earliest service appointment I could get that was not during my work hours was September 9th. Yup. Weeks and weeks away. I might try going to the Comcast office and trading in my cable modem for a different one to see if that helps. But if it’s a signal strength issue, that ain’t gonna fix it. I might try picking up a signal amplifier type thing from RadioShack. I can’t live like this! How primitive…
2 Responses to “Extreme Internet Woes”
Maybe be thankful you needn’t deal with the bloated behemoth that is British Telecom…?
Heh. I haven’t had the pleasure, so I guess I’ll be happy!