There is an aerial cable that comes to this splitter (from the left) that splits out two cables. The one powering my modem is the one that’s damaged.

I’ve been having internet issues during the day for the last few days (I live in the northeast US, so very cold right now if that’s relevant). It’s only during the day. Internet speed is VERY slow when it’s connected (<10mbps download, <1 upload) and it is constantly disconnecting. But at nights internet is normal with no interruptions (160mbsp download, 10 upload). I had a tech scheduled to come out to fix the cable today but the guy never showed up (I could do it on my own but don’t fully trust myself with it) but it seems weird it’s only happening during the day. Is this actually the issue?

The other cable from the splitter goes nowhere, so is not an option. This is a rented house so there’s only so much I can do.

  • GnPQGuTFagzncZwB@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Can you log onto the web interface of your cable modem and report the signal levels? We had issues for years where it would be fine and just go poof. After about a year of calling twice a week they sent a crew out and they cut every connector off of every wire and replaced them, looked, and were it is fine now. Um it was always fine til it was not. And they were no sooner gone when the signal went away yet again. Months later they sent another guy, on his own, to shut me up, and he looked and found the issue in about 30 seconds and I am not kidding. They had a heavy wire wrapped around the cable where it met our eave and the nail they had it tied to pulled out so the cable was bent at a sharp 90 degree angle and sometimes the ends pressed together and sometimes not. He ran a new wire from the pole to the house but he did not have a bucket truck so it was on the ground, he was going to come back in a week or so to fix it. Two weeks later I called and he was no longer with them. It took and I am not kidding two years to get the wire back up in the air. They came out and fixed it and like a month later Verizon ran Fios out here and we have not looked back. Oh, the old company began with Z and ended with O as is O star reviews for their service.