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TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX

Ambit >> signal levels

My girlfriend lives on the 3rd floor in a apartment complex and uses the cable and internet company Grande Communications in Austin Tx. Her internet work alright but pages wont load till you hit refresh. It got a good bit better when I moved her over to OpenDNS but it is still not as good as I would like.

Ambit
Model: U10C018

Upstream Modulation : QAM16
Upstream transmit Power Level : 51.5 dBmV

Downstream Modulation : QAM256
Downstream Receive Power Level : -4.3 dBmV
Downstream SNR : 38.2 dB

From my experience her levels are marginal. Am I right?

Is a tech call warranted and is there any thing I could do to help improve things?

Would a different cable modem be better for this application? I have spare Motorola SB5120 and SB5101, Scientific Atlanta DPC-2100 and Linksys BEFCMU10v4 cable modems.

jimbopalmer
Tsar of all the Rushers

join:2008-06-02
Greenwood, MS
·Windjammer Cable

Upstream Power level is marginal.

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TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX


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According to the link you posted I fall within acceptable ranges.

Upstream Transmit Power : range +8 to +58 dBmV (perfered below +55 dBmV)

Downstream Received Power: DOCSIS specification requires a range of -15 dBmV to +15 dBmV
Downstream SNR: should be 30 dB or higher:

At first look I thought my Upstream Transmit Power was alittle high and Downstream Received Power was a little low.

what ranges are good and what are marginal?

jimbopalmer
Tsar of all the Rushers

join:2008-06-02
Greenwood, MS
·Windjammer Cable

reply to TX CS Aggie
From the web site

Downstream SNR: should be 30 dB or higher: the higher the better.

Downstream Received Power: the DOCSIS specification requires cable modems to function correctly with downstream power levels in the range -15 dBmV to +15 dBmV: power readings at or close to those extremes are likely to be unacceptable.

Upstream Transmit Power: Values in the forties are the most common.
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TX CS Aggie

join:2009-07-22
College Station, TX

said by jimbopalmer See Profile :

From the web site
Upstream Transmit Power: Values in the forties are the most common.
thank you

said by jimbopalmer See Profile :

From the web site

Downstream SNR: should be 30 dB or higher: the higher the better.

Downstream Received Power: the DOCSIS specification requires cable modems to function correctly with downstream power levels in the range -15 dBmV to +15 dBmV: power readings at or close to those extremes are likely to be unacceptable.

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