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[raustin3 at nc.rr.com (Roger Austin)]

   The tech left me with another splitter also. The difference was that
the cable modem plug was noted as -3.5dB and the other TV plugs were
-7dB. She said that the normal -7dB outlets would not give the proper
signal strength to the cable modem.

Mark Turner wrote:
 >>I didn't understand since the RR service ran fine for a
 >>while, then just died. It was working when she left. She left me with
 >>another splitter that I am to use when I get a wire directly from the
 >>main wire into the cable modem.

 > The same thing happened to me one night. I moved my cable modem to a
 > different room and everything seemed fine at first. Then it died.
 >
 > After the tech came out and replaced my splitter, I compared it to the
 > new one he brought. The new one was rated to 1000 MHz.
 >
 > If you take a look at your cable modem's settings (this assumes you're
 > using a Motorola Surfboard modem and are viewing it from home)...
 > http://192.168.100.1/signaldata.html
 >
 > ...you'll see that the cable modem signal runs at 609 MHz, a frequency
 > at which the signal quickly leaks out of older splitters and cable.