On 8 Jan, Ken Foskey wrote: > I had a problem with the cable. The cable modem has an actual address > that you can talk to to find out the signal strength of the cable. The > joints of the cable up the pole corroded after a few years. They moved > the connector and it was better. They ended up rerunning the cable into > my house because it was not 100% reliable. Since then it is fine.
Sounds like my problem: the technician tested the signal strength and said the noise was high - he spent most of his time outside the house attending to the box outside to improve the signal-to-noise ratio, and said more work would be needed to tune up an amplifier (?) further down the street. I must say, I like the Optus people. luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
