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Review on Mediabridge Coaxial Cable F Male Connectors by Chris Sanders

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If your cable internet is suddenly misbehaving, try this before paying for a support call.

As everyone has said this is a very high quality RG6 cable. What a lot of people don't know: The latest Internet cable standard (Docsis 3) is very prone to failure. So if your cable provider switches to it, the poor quality of the cable you previously had can make the connection very intermittent or even inoperable. If you live in an area with high-frequency noise (in an apartment complex, near a cell tower, or near a ham radio station), throw a grounding sleeve and grounding rod down the wireway. You will also need a special tool to open it. All in all, it costs less than $30 to fix it in the best way possible, which, at least where I am located, is less than just a service call I would have to pay for. If you'd rather know before you buy and are a bit tech savvy, google how to log into your modem. There should be a list of connected channels somewhere. You should look at the downlinks. If this applies to Docsis 3, they should be using QAM256 modulation and your SNR should be the bare minimum of 30dB. Note that this signal-to-noise ratio can change as the RF around you changes. If less, then the cable is the most likely problem, and it's the only problem you can fix anyway.

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  • Stable test results
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