-- About 20 years ago, a signal drop and complaints and 3...
@mdk
@mdk wrote:
@whomever -- About 20 years ago, a signal drop and complaints and 3 months later, they discovered a break in the cable between pole and house. A good wind would sway cable, breaking connection and back again.
Hmm. Could the same condition, but with the electrical power feeding your home, over power-lines adjacent to your outdoor coaxial-cable, be causing the same symptoms?
- Extremely unlikely. Else the phone would have rebooted or just gone off as well. While there was no Internet, I was able to phone Shaw line up at the trough.
- Inside the home, the main coax comes in, splits (approved splitter by Shaw install) The distance from splitter to phone and splitter to modem was decided by Shaw - must be right.
- Outside, the coax runs on it's own, separate from hydro. Outside still, the coax goes into a small box and joins the main via splitter that goes into the house.
- Having been with Shaw for some 20+ years, I ensure cables are not moved, are tight, and nothing else around them. - not even breathed on.
Try putting a UPS ("Uninterruptible Power Supply") between your electrical wall-outlet and your cable-modem and your computer, to provide "smooth" power to the cable-modem and to your computer and your monitor screen.
Nothing has changed here - nothing! There is no reason I should rewire my house to accommodate a new bell or whistle or stalker by Shaw. Next? Delete my cookies???
I know you're trying to help @mdk
@mdk wrote:
Do you live in the city, or out in the country, where the electrical power-supply might be more "iffy" ?
- City.
Yes, there have been occasional black-outs, brown outs, and no-outs. I know the difference.
When cable died,
A: Phone worked on same line.
B: No power outs
C: No brown outs.
THIS IS a NEW ISSUE.
and it's fixed by doing the factory reset, pin in hole, 60 seconds, wait, comes back. Good for - who knows how long.
@mdk wrote:
> Win 7 cabled desktop is usually the only one connected. Ideas?
By the way, Microsoft still offers a free upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Microsoft ended all security-updates to Windows 7 in mid-January 2020. The "risk" of running an unsupported operating system is increasing, every month that it is not getting any "patches".
Now you've done it - you poked the rant-bear. 🙂
"unsupported"? I may not know much about modems, but I do know how SMIRCing works and know that Shaw like 70% - 85% of all sites is in the business of pimping out our rights to privacy like all other online 'everythings' have taken to doing for Microsoft, Google and ilk.
I have to use a sandboxed browser just so I can view my account at Shaw. Why? Because my usual browser blocks Stalkers. Cookies are one thing, but I block 16 stalkers on Shaw just on the main page alone, and in the end, if I want to pay my Shaw bill, I have to get undressed first!
When I visit Shaw's home, they have every right to follow me around; record what I look at, say, touch swipe up or down, or left or right, for how long noting what mode of transportation I use to get around. But Shaw has no right to frisk me at their door to see where I've been, for how long, using what devices and from what locations. Shaw also has no right to hide gum-shoes on me to record and report back where I go after leaving, for how long, what vI saw, did, and from what location.... that is beyond "tracking" - it's STALKING!
PLEASE don't go there with Windows STALKER 10! I do have a Win10 leash, on another device and rarely ever do I send Microsoft and ilk my resources to be pimped by Microsoft. I usually only use Linux-based devices. The "risk" as you call it is a risk that the site won't work properly unless we let the site get as close to a cavity search one can get. As for viruses, which is worse? What do most viruses do these days? ANSWER: Most viruses today try to use our devices resources, mine our data, record our input/output, and try to take our money. Sound familiar?
Shaw is your area of expertise, Rights to Privacy and the raping of those rights by web sites is my 'bailiwick'.
Having cleared the air. I need to cancel the Shaw service tech because all s/he will do is measure the line weight, say it's a good signal and leave. I agree, the signal is good. Until the modem decides to reboot and who wants to wait around for that!
I'm going to look into the possibility of being able to buy a quality modem and use that instead of the Hitron.
~w~
Poking the rant-bear with updates to Windows Stalker 10 is never a good idea. 😏😁
p.s. @mdk I know you are trying to help and I very much appreciate your efforts. I don't know how you can do it - but hey - thanks. I appreciate it. I strongly urge everyone to dump Win 10 and get back the 45% of resources it uses for stalking, and switch to a Linux based system. No one should have the right to pimp your rights to peeps and perves that want to sell you something you already have. The Internet has been taken over by marketeers, advertisers and companies doing everything they can to know everything about you ... an you pay them to do that!
Suggesting Win Stalker 10 might help, is like saying bleach will cure COVID-19(84)
