What am I doing wrong here? I keep leaving dielectric behind.

What am I doing wrong here? I keep leaving dielectric behind.

Been practicing some stripping with my Jonard Tools stripper which is this one. But I have been leaving some dielectric behind like shown in the picture.

I was told that leaving behind some, would create a suck out. So I am kinda scratching my head here as to why my stripper isnt doing the job properly. I have followed all the instructions as shown for the stripper.

https://jonard.com/coax-strippers-ust-stripper?v=574

Not a cable tech, but have ran a few outlets in my home. Since my home wires are my responsibility.

u/strykerzr350 — 13 days ago

It is finally happening in North Mississippi. In my market at least. Network is being upgraded.

Recently my town was swapped over to a Harmonic CMTS. Basically now a dumbed down fiber hub for all the nodes with the headend being downsized. Rode out to take a look at the node, and it appears to be a Harmonic Ripple Node.

It has taken them this long to get my town upgraded at least to newer technology. I wonder if my email to corporate a few months back swayed them to do it?

My area has always been last to get upgrades. It took us the longest to even get DOCSIS 3.1 sub split.

u/strykerzr350 — 23 days ago

Been seeing this pop up on my account daily, scheduled maintenance.

My town finally went Harmonic vCMTS a week ago, and for the past two days I have been seeing this pop up on my account. Looks like I might be getting new plant upgrades. I dont see it as normal, like how you would see it in the outage map.

No email yet, as I think it might come three days later. Guess they might be doing plant upgrades. I did contact support, and they said they see nothing in the system. I would assume they only see stuff software related when it comes to planned maintenance.

u/strykerzr350 — 28 days ago

I still have X1 TV. So what is the video resolution of their service?

I hear it is 720p, but with the networks being upgraded to a more robust system. I would assume that they could increase the picture quality to at least 1080p.

A long time ago there was a way you could see if your channel, was traditional QAM, or IPTV. It was done by a remote code. But now that code does nothing.

We recently swapped over to a Harmonic vCMTS. I have noticed it being somewhat sharper picture quality. Although the picture quality could be a placebo since the hardware at the headend was upgraded.

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u/strykerzr350 — 1 month ago

The app and website sure is full of glitches, and bugs.

The app and website this morning is reporting all I have is the mobile service. Can't troubleshoot, cant restart modem if I wanted to. I dont know who is programming all this, but it is terrible.

u/strykerzr350 — 1 month ago

What modems are you all using with Xfinity?

A simple discussion to see what all you are using right now. Currently I am using the Netgear CM2000 as I await for them to upgrade the plant for my network.

However I have thought about swapping brands entirely since Netgear modems have LEDs that like to cook themselves. They significantly get dimmer overtime.

I am not sure about the LEDs from Arris, and Hitron. I know Motorola themselves, have not made anymore cable modems.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

My network on Xfinity was moved to a Harmonic CMTS last night

I was notified of maintenance yesterday, and my internet connection was offline for 3 hours. Apparently they got rid of the old Cisco CBR CMTS. The MAC address that is on the modem logs now reports back to being a Harmonic one. I haven't noticed any hardware upgrades on the plant yet. Channel was 159, and now it is 193.

u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

What causes pan pizzas to be raw in the middle at times?

Former employee here, we had pan pizza, but it was the type that had a thick pre made bread like crust. So there was no getting that wrong.

Last week I redeemed some points for a pan pizza, and it was raw in the middle. The employee gave it to me for free, so I was kinda confused, as I owed for making the pizza pan. I insisted on paying for it, and she refused to take my money.

So, I wonder if she knew it was messed up, or was just being nice? I really didnt want to get her into trouble. So instead I ended up getting food elsewhere.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

What is flow control in the ethernet settings?

I have an RAXE500. I was wondering what the flow control setting does. Do I really need it activated as it is activated by default? Networking is still journeyman at this point.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

What are some good aftermarket brand headlight replacements for 03 to 05?

My headlights are terrible with how they have oxidized over time. What are some good brands that you all have used? I would like OEM but you cant get those new anymore.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

Nick Gehlfuss for Max Payne live action?

Watching CIA, the new show he is in. I kinda think he has the looks to be Max Payne. Wondering what everyone else thinks. I am sure he could pull of the grin, and he has a somewhat chiseled looking face. He is also tall, 6'1.

u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

Getting an internet offer while still in a previous promotion.

My promotion will be ending in December, but looking at my billing while canceling HBO Max, I noticed I am being offered gig extra for 85 dollars, the same amount of money I am paying for 600 down, which is a legacy plan.

I messed around in the cart, and noticed that I would have to change my TV package. Which is also a legacy plan, called Ultimate TV, which is now Premium TV.

However I noticed that the Premium TV package is not available for me to swap to. I was thinking that is cause I might be hard locked into the legacy plan, until December of this year.

I ran a family members house address that has no service, and saw all plans available for TV. I have TV service as I am trying to teach a family member how to stream. Then the TV service will go away. Its a long tedious process teaching someone to stream.

  1. I said what year in case this post shows up for other people in the future.

My question is, should I wait out my promotion, or go ahead and get this plan? Just incase it is a timed offer.

u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

Does Netgear have anything to allow you to have a media player for sharing content over the routers?

I was wondering if there was anything that I could do by connecting a hard drive to the router, to locally share content through my house?

Say for instance I have a media library, and want to play it over my home theater system, or through a player over a Roku, if one exists.

For some odd reason, I remember something like this existing, but cannot find any information anywhere.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

Does outside plant equipment such as nodes, and amps generate heat?

General question if nodes, amps, and line extenders generate heat? I was assuming they did as all of them have fins on the cases.

I was also wondering if there is any failure rates with them. Especially during the extreme heat we have been having?

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago
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Roku CPU temperature and usage secret menu not working since new update

Ever since the new update I cannot see the described menu above in my post title. Also known as the platform secret screen.

I have used the menu combination " Home key five times, Fast Forward, Play/Pause, Rewind, Play/Pause, Fast Forward.

By the time I press the play pause button nearing the end of the code, I am launching an app. So the code gets reset.

Is this a problem for anyone else?

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago
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How are you all liking the dough press?

Former employee who worked there in 2009. I am amazed at all the stuff you all have there now. So I was wondering how everyone is liking the dough press?

Some things I have noticed about the pizza from those being used. Is that sometimes the pizza seems to be a lot thinner than what is usually made without it.

I was standing in line waiting for my food one day, and saw that a worker used the press, then took the dough off to correct mistakes the press made.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

How bad is Google Public DNS provided by ISPs?

5 years ago, a fiber optic provider rolled out service to my area. They provide only Google DNS for the DNS settings, and there no way to change it, unless you call them, and they physically bridge the ONT from the office. So I was wondering how bad Google DNS really is? I have personally never used it, but I do use NextDNS.

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u/strykerzr350 — 2 months ago

Customer question. How is a customers home wires determined to be an issue?

I am wondering what kind of test that the Hitron meters have for testing the homes wiring. The reason I am asking is I need to have a tech out, from what the service representatives tell me.

The service rep can only see OFDM, and OFDMA on 3.1 modems a customer owns.

My drop was installed last year, and the tech swapped me to a different port on the tap, to see if he could improve the MER from the port. When he did the service got worse. The service rep says they see downstream wobble.

On a side note, how insignificant is DOCSIS 3.0 channel noise, compared to DOCSIS 3.1? Also, how much of a role does DOCSIS 3.0 play in the how 3.1 connections work?

I have inspected all the connectors in the demarcation box, and behind my equipment. None of the dielectrics are sticking out past the screw nut, and none are sunken in. They are flush. I wrenched them to a point where I could not turn them with my fingers. The devices are finger tight.

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u/strykerzr350 — 3 months ago

How would I make Netgear aware of a firmware bug in a Netgear CM2000?

I have tried to explain this several times before, I dont think my point is getting across to anyone.

I am with Xfinity. We are not in an upgraded market, so I am not sure if this is a rule in the modem config file or a bug within the firmware.

So here is what is going on. Once the modem hits 100 billion unerrored codewords on the OFDM channel. It will reboot on its own. But regardless, the modem should not reboot on its own unless there is a rule in the config file, or they do it via maintenance, or I do it.

The red circled area is of interest.

u/strykerzr350 — 3 months ago