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comcastic
for the past year, i've had intermittent flickering of my cable. when it started i was bound and determined to fix it myself, but no amount of changing out the coax made any effect. it was only certain stations, too, and by-and-large, they were stations that i didn't care about (vh1 bore the brunt of it), so i let the problem go on its cyclic way... but this past week it started to make the military channel inaccessible, and sci-fi was even flickering sometimes!!! so i finally made an appointment.
the dude that came was really nice and pretty quiet as he worked, and he showed me how to get to my cable box's diagnostic status screen! (you turn off the box, and really quickly hit "select".) it clearly showed that i had an snr (signal to noise ratio) that was about 27db -- totally unacceptable. the dude was great, and checked all the coax from the box completely out to the street, replacing heads of cables and full cables until he got my snr all the way up to 33db -- totally in the "good" range. and i even got a new cable box! it's so tiny; the same form factor as the old motorola "surfboard" cable modems.
now "comcastic" no longer means "craptistic" for me+kitty. and we can rest assured that Galactica Day (APRIL 4!) will be AWESOME!!
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