{"id":1739,"date":"2018-09-30T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T03:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2018-09-30T20:48:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T03:48:49","slug":"coaxial-surge-protector-preventing-high-speed-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Coaxial Surge Protector preventing High Speed Wi-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"

So recently we called up our service provider to check in about cable\/internet service.\u00a0 They notified us that we could get a new modem because they had upgraded their speeds.<\/p>\n

The modem arrived and had good installation instructions including going to a site to activate it.\u00a0 All seemed OK, took 1\/2 an hour.\u00a0 Testing off the cell phones (I didn’t initially test on any machines) speeds seemed about the same as before.\u00a0 And started to get the impression something was not right.<\/p>\n

Next morning I wake up to log into work on my machine and the internet is way slow.\u00a0 I decide to run a speed check:<\/p>\n

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Not so great at all.<\/p>\n

Calling up the provider’s help desk, we start to walk through a debug — which involves switching ether net cables directly to a machine and running the test.\u00a0 Still slow.\u00a0 I get disconnected from them (of course) but continue on with an idea.<\/p>\n

I had hooked my incoming cable to a surge protector — it worked fine with the previous modem.\u00a0 But removing the coaxial surge protector from the chain was the solution — speeds were fixed.<\/p>\n

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I try on a few test sites:<\/p>\n

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Also — researching — this site<\/a> discusses that surge protectors can be an issue.\u00a0 I was surprised I had never came across the issue before as this answer was quite old:<\/p>\n

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Re: What about cable surge protectors?<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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You can’t use them for TV or HSI, they will mess with the digital signals, it is a proven fact.<\/p>\n

I also believe, that I do not want my coax so close to the AC wiring, that it will jump from one line to another because they are so close inside those devices.<\/p>\n

The coax must be grounded at the entry to the buiding, and grounds the shield on the\u00a0coax.\u00a0 That is part of the National Electrical code.<\/p>\n

Running ethernet through those AC surge proector strip’s is the same deal, it will slow down your network, again, that is a proven fact.\u00a0 There has been posters on this forum complaining on slow speeds and once their coax and\/or ethernet was removed from those strips, they have gotten their speeds back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So recently we called up our service provider to check in about cable\/internet service.\u00a0 They notified us that we could get a new modem because they had upgraded their speeds. The modem arrived and had good installation instructions including going to a site to activate it.\u00a0 All seemed OK, took 1\/2 an hour.\u00a0 Testing off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}