Everything has been running fine, but I'm interested in advice on what to do about my levels. My house is the first house out of an amp pedestal (probably a line extender) with a short drop and the higher frequencies come in HOT. I have no idea what my tap value is.
Physical configuration:
45 foot drop
4 way splitter
9 dB attenuator on modem line, after splitter
20 foot outlet to modem
Motorola SB 6141
Signal:
8 bonded DS: 813-879 Mhz / 5-7 dB recv
2 bonded US: 29.6 & 36.1 Mhz / 54 dB xmit
The 9 dB pad was necessary to keep my old D2 modem from overdriving. Do I remove it and run a hot forward input (15+ dB on all carriers)?
I don't want to drop offline when the summer heat rolls in. I could run a nice 45 xmit without the inline pad. I'd still prefer to knock the forward levels down to where they are though, maybe even closer to +3. I'm already running +16 dB of attenuation though, not accounting for line losses.
Ideally, something that could lower my forward without trashing the return, like a +18 dB step attenuator would help. Any COX techs on the forum care to let me know how I can get one? :)
Short of that, any suggestions?
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