I work for charter, one of the things I struggle with is getting repeats for when I go to a home, verify the drop/outlet is good, signal quality coming from the tap is good. Modem shows 98-100% uptime in scope, and the router is being wonky and intermittent. I swap the router because the modem is showing good signal and uptime. I either don’t have enough modems until warehouse and take a chance not replacing both, or I believe it’s a router issue. Repeat comes back in, next tech goes out and swaps the modem. Okay, I come across the situation again, I decide I remember what happened last time, I’ll swap the modem. Repeat comes back in tech swaps the router. How am I supposed to know which one is exactly the issue if levels/lines are clean, uptime shows good. We don’t have enough equipment to swap both out each time. Is there something I’m missing? I feel this exact situation is likely 20% of my repeats.

Management has been getting on us about going to the tap and taking readings from there because they catching a lot of guys slacking measuring signal levels for the tap from the cpe of GB rather than actually going out to the tap.

This is just cause they're too lazy to get to the roof or go to to the lockbox or maybe just wanting to do the job quicker for metrics sake.

I make sure to run by the tap no matter where it is and measure correctly, hence the punny nickname

The Comcast bond was fried where the service enters the home. I had some grounding issues with my home electrical that have since been fixed. So I get that it backfed voltage back to that and fried it. But all electrical issues have been corrected.

I have had 2 Comcast service calls, PG&E, apartment maintenance, and a certified electrician to my home in the last week.

Comcast service techs said there is voltage on the coaxial cable coming from the modem even when it's not connected to anything..

The electrician also checked my home for a bad neutral, bad ground and other issues and there is none. PG&E confirmed there is no problem with our service.

All outlets we plugged the modem into on different circuits was back feeding voltage onto the coax line. I have had 3 different Xfinity gateways here and all had the same backfeed. At this point, I'm convinced that it is these new gateways that are allowing the fact there is no ground on their power supply to backfeed voltage back onto the coax

If anyone has any insight for this, please let me know.

My husband worked for Spectrum for what would have been 5 years this year. He was overworked and exhausted sometime last year and it caused him to have a breakdown at work. Yes, I know, I know... but since then they have been kinda eyeballing and targeting him in a weird way, just nitpicking everything. He had some time off this week coming up he put in like 2 months ago but very strange enough this was the week they decided to let him go. They stated it was attendance but he never misses work and are targeting him for missing a few minutes when the dispatch doesnt assign him jobs that are local to the area hes in which they are supposed since restructuring. They would give him jobs like an hour and a half a way when he'd only have 30 mins to get to it. Anyways, I'm sorry for venting. Its just upsets me how they have been treating him since his breakdown but I was helping him research new career paths. What could he do now since hes been let go? He was a Field Tech 5. I know he could possibly go into IT but other than that, I dont honestly know. I'd appreciate any advice and I thank you all for listening.

hello I am 19 and currently have done hvac commercial/resi new construction and service for about 2 years now, i know someone who works for velocity MSC and they pay for his schooling and pay for him to travel all over to do work, I am really interested in that aspect of it but im concerned about the pay part of it, am I better off staying in HVAC or do i have a better opportunity infront of me, i have no idea really what it is yall do but i do bring low and high voltage experience, troubleshooting, commercial settings, and if yall know velocity MSC and if its a good company to work for any insights on anything would be amazing!

What’s the best gloves that are thin enough to still do work properly, but decent against protecting your hand?

As a tech, I wanted to ask how you guys are doing ingress checks from the TAP to the ground block. What factors are you mainly looking at during the check?

Also, during ingress scans, are you checking only with the modem disconnected, or do you also test under live traffic conditions while the modem is online and transmitting upstream?

Trying to see how other techs approach difficult intermittent ingress cases and what methods work best for you guys.

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Anyone got any reccomendations? Im three years in as a fiber tech and my boots are starting to split pretty good wont make it another winter. Anyone got good recommendations?

Does anyone know where we can order the new diplex filters to circumvent pixellation on catv boxes? Or is everyone kinda up shits creek