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Any other college basketball fans out there not able to watch the game because of cablevision? I called up, they offered me a $1.30 credit... A big game like that, millions of ad revenue lost because of lousy cablevision.. Go Knicks...not, Go Verizon FiOS
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Our Cablevision has never been out... at least not to my knowledge (Saint Marks/Underhill-ish). Must be on a different something-or-other?
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I'm with you, SirSterling. Last night was frustrating, though it did prevent me from being forced to watch Joakim Noah and listen to Billy Packer. VeggieQueen, you only would have noticed the outage if you tried to watch ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe Thirteen. Everything else was functioning normally. On a related note, did Cablevision recently eliminate quite a few channels, including VH1 Classic?
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OnEasternParkway » VeggieQueen, you only would have noticed the outage if you tried to watch ABC, NBC, CBS, and maybe Thirteen. Everything else was functioning normally. On a related note, did Cablevision recently eliminate quite a few channels, including VH1 Classic?
Good point... I rarely watch those channels. I know they've added a few channels (none that I care about). I'll have to go check out VH1 Classic... that one was a favorite! -
I had a problem with IO Internet last night. They said it was my modem, and that I should go out past Utica to exchange the equipment. I called again this morning and they said they didn't see the same problem (packet loss). Did anyone else have a problem?
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OnEasternParkway » On a related note, did Cablevision recently eliminate quite a few channels, including VH1 Classic?
I think they moved a bunch of channels around. I know that Fx and FUSE swapped channels so that Fx is now in the 40's and FUSE is up around 78. -
OnEasternParkway » On a related note, did Cablevision recently eliminate quite a few channels, including VH1 Classic?
VH1 Classic is still there. I watched it last night... I think channel 186-ish? -
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My Internet/cable/phone have all been out for the past couple of hours. I'm at Dean & Carlton. Anyone else having problems?
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really, really slow loading and hanging up on simple text e-mails. the tech said they had signal problems in our area (sunday, 2/17), duh, and in the afternoon i saw some optimum (ironic!) trucks on the street. seemed better for a while, but in the evening still major service issues.
"Here's a little tip I would like to relate: Many fish bites if you got good bait." -
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"Here's a little tip I would like to relate: Many fish bites if you got good bait." -
since i posted the above, i feel obliged to report it was fixed by monday afternoon. amazing how dependent we are on the internet now that a day and a half without can be so disruptive. but how come an outage of old-fashioned telephone service, which is also just a cable to your house, was a rarity while cable seems to be on the blink every month or so?
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Spoken by someone who doesn't understand much about technology.
It's like comparing the reliability of a hula-hoop and an automobile, since, after all, they're both based on wheels.
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Eastbloc, please explain the difference to us lesser mortals, between the reliability of telephone service via cable and of internet service via cable.
After that, you can address the differences between hula hoops and automobiles.
Thank you.
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POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service, the industry-standard term) lines are analog devices that work much like a microphone and speaker. They require nothing other than electrical switching technology and current in order to connect you with the other party. As long as you have a physical electrical connection, you're good to go. The signal is at no more than 3,400 cycles per second (compared to an audio CD which has 44,100 cycles per second in playback) and even if some of those cycles get lost, you probably will still get the message across, because most of the encoding and decoding of the communication is done by your brain.
Your cable modem, by comparison, is a phenomenally complicated device that converts digital information into analog signals for transmission millions of times per second. This signal is then terminated at a fiber-optic junction box that's probably sitting on a pole somewhere in your backyard, and translated into beams of light for further aggregation and transmission back to the central office, where it is again terminated and eventually plumbed into a network of Ethernet routers and switches.
This describes only the physical signaling layer involved. On top of this, there is the need to deliver your information not just to a single other party, but to the entire internet all at once, so you can browse Brooklynian while you instant message your friends and download porn. This involves protocols of communication and negotiation that can break down for a variety of reasons. All of these things also need error detection and correction, so the occasional stray byte doesn't get into that Word document your boss sent you to review and render it unreadable.
And so forth. We're just scratching the surface here. Rest assured that while running an electronically-switched POTS network is an engineering challenge, it is one that is generally better understood and has far fewer variables and moving parts.
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Thanks! That was extremely helpful.
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Just read an article on Bloomberg that Cablevision is raising the monthly bill by $2.98 to cover the cost of sports programming. This is in addition to the $5/month they just hiked the bill for internet service.
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