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...You could get a length of co-ax and swap it in in various places to see if the problems go away. if you have multiple splitters, make sure the cable modem is on the 'first' one, and that splitter is a high grade 2-way one. Make sure all cable is high grade RG6 quad shield and not older RG59 or whatever. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

...f co-ax and swap it >> in in various places to see if the problems go away. > > if you have multiple splitters, make sure the cable modem is on the > 'first' one, and that splitter is a high grade 2-way one. Make sure all > cable is high grade RG6 quad shield and not older RG59 or whatever. > I've heard (don't remember where) that typical latency for cable network providers (which comcast is) is [much?] higher than latency for DSL, even though overall data throughput may be higher for cable than for DSL. This probably is soooo outdated (if at all true). Does s...

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How do you IT guys diagnose the problem with a spotty internet connection? Just spent an hour on the phone with TWC/Spectrum. Of course they don't see anything wrong with their service. They send me to speedtest.net. The first attempt, the page didn't fully load, the second attempt, the page didn't load at all, the third attempt, it loaded. On a 20/2MB line I get 24.83/2.47MB. The