[dba-Tech] modem/router

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 09:54:39 CDT 2008


A lot of time the connections at the end of the cables are not attched
correctly too. And you have to have your TV set for CABLE and not
ANTENNA so it tunes correctly.I'd call the cable compnay though and
have them come out and have a look see.

My wireless router is in the basement in a corner room. It works just
fine on the first floor and second floor too. And outside on the deck.
And in the garage which is on first floor and on the other side of the
house. And on the other side of the kitchen. Mine works basically
everywhere on my property. And I can see about 8 of my neighbors
wireless networks as well if I do a "see all wireless networks"  Most
of them are "secure connections" and I cannot connect to them but at
least one of them is open and my laptop sometimes will mistakenly
connect to that one even though it is sitting within 4 feet of MY
router. I don't know I am using someone elses connection until I try
to print or access a shared drive on one of my other computers and it
can't find it and I realise, "OH, I'm connected to someone elses
network and not my own."

A good reminder for keeping MY network as secure as I can.

It probably matters how good your laptop wireless adapter is and how
good your routers antennae are. My laptop has the wireless built in,
no add in card is used. I don't know if that is better or worse than
an add in card but it seems to work well for me. Marty does sometime
have to do a "repair connection" to get her system connected but that
is only about one in ten reboots I think.

GK.

On 4/15/08, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
> There could be more than one splitter at work here. That sounds like the
> most likely problem.
>
> Susan H.
>
> > TV reception problems are caused by issues in the coax used to route the
> > tv (cable) signal to the TVs and routers.  Coax is a round black cable.
> >  It typically comes through the wall into the basement or attic.  From
> > there it usually immediately is screwed into a "splitter" which is a
> > little silver or gold box with 3 to 6 or more screw on (threaded)
> > connectors.  These splitters do exactly that, split the signal out and
> > sent it off to the various rooms of the house for the TVs.
>
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