[ale] x10 Signal booster? (slightly OT)

[Christopher Fowler]

A friend of mine in Charlotte works for Charter as an installer.  Last
week he and I were talking about these issues and he told me that
Charter does not allow the use of signal boosters.  Not sure why.  

I had a problem in Duluth where I had shoddy cable.  Cablevision
installed a signal booster outside the house to boost the signal going
into the house.  It worked okay but I still on occasion would lose
connectivity.  Then one day I lost everything.  They made a few trips
out until they determined that a change at the box about .25 miles up
the road caused my outage.  We had to move the cable modem from upstairs
to downstairs and run a direct cable to get it working again.

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:21, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   My neighbor just sent me this link and asked me if these are worth it:
> 
> http://www.x10.com/electronics/allcategories/electronics/televisions/_motorola-gi_484095-001-00.html?44b88eab30c511ea4242d309
> 
> 
> They used to be with the older analog cable but with the new digital
> cable and cablemodem for my Linux boxes (see, slightly on topic) will
> there be any benefit?  On our charter cable systems there have been
> significant issues with signal strength in the past.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> :wq!
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