Follow the below steps to get the Trilithic 860 DSP/DSPi out of the box and to that tap in a matter of minutes. Trilithic has made the 860 extremely easy to use and navigate.
For various uses of Trilithic 860 functions please see the following Articles for a quick overview [...] Continue Reading…
Troubleshooting Noise
Tracking Noise at the Premise.
Troubleshooting Noise comes up often. Now more then ever noise mitigation is playing an important role in your everyday job. Noise plant wise is a cumulative impairment. A little bit of noise here, a little bit of noise there and the “power” of the noise grows and [...] Continue Reading…
BER Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting BER- The basics.
BER Troubleshooting? This comes up A LOT. Troubleshooting BER has a bit of mystic magic about it. Its a lot of numbers in an odd scientific notation that baffles a lot of techs. Especially the new guys. First off lets start with breaking down the measurement [...] Continue Reading…
Running Cable Drops
Tips for Running Cable Drops quickly.
This is a topic that came up in our forum by member Rombus. Running drops is just a step below wallfishing in the level of difficulty and tediousness. There are easy, straight forward drops and there are difficult drops through trees, hopping from pole to [...] Continue Reading…
Wallfishing MDUs
Wallfishing MDUs
Wallfishing MDUs can be tricky but if you are aware of a few tricks you can negate the
horrible routing along baseboards and through hallways and actually make it look as if the cable outlets were there pre-construction! These methods require no wall tacks or clips and will actually be quicker [...] Continue Reading… [...]
Wallfishing Cable
Wallfishing- An introduction
Wallfishing is one of the most dreaded tasks a CableTech can perform. ( It falls right ABOVE running a new mid-span or sub pole to pole drop..) but it shouldnt be.
There are various reasons why Wallfishing is such a mystery. Ill list a few here-
1-Techs arent carpenters. [...] Continue Reading…
Cable TV Troubleshooting: Connectors
Cable TV Troubleshooting starts with Connectors.
When you call your local cable company with a Digital Tiling issue, or any issue really, the first question in the LOQ ( Line of Questioning) is usually “can you tighten all of your connectors and see if the issue persists?” That seems obvious [...] Continue Reading…
Cable Troubleshooting: RF Feedback
Cable Troubleshooting
Thought I would pop this out onto the site while it is fresh. This is an issue that a tech in the field came across the other day while Cable Troubleshooting.
The technician arrived for two customers in neighboring Townhomes. They both were complaining of tiling issues and One [...] Continue ReadingR [...]
Verizons answer, Cables Heartache.
There has been an Article or two on CableTechs in the past few weeks surrounding innovation, earnings and direction. This doesn’t come without some controversy, some out of the box thinking and some foresight. Other solutions by competitive providers are going to cause issues however. This is our cross to bare- [...] Continue Readin [...]








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