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Thursday, April 9th, 2020 3:00 PM

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Downstream power levels are way too high

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My original post was created with two differnt issues and combined into one, which made for some incorrect claims and accusations. 

I still have an issue with my downstream power levels being too high, but the facts I was sharing were incorrect and mixed up with an old upstream power level issue. 

 

Downstream power levels are around 20-22 dBmV. 

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5 years ago

You’re mixed up at what levels you’re looking at. If you see 55, thats your upstream, not your downstream, that’s entirely too high and an attenuators is only going to make it even higher and more out of spec. It really may seem like your talking a foreign language if you have your levels backwards. Post all of your levels, post how your cables are ran (splitters, amps etc) because it may have nothing to do with outside. With the pandemic, it’s going to get harder to get a tech out for something that may be unnecessary. Comcast acceptable levels are 10 to -10 downstream and 35-51 upstream

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5 years ago

Thanks for your reply, my apologies, I am indeed getting the history of this issue mixed up with a newer issue. So my OP makes very little sense. 

 

Several months ago I was experienceing upstream power levels at 56+. I somewhat corrected this by introducing more splitters and that moved my power levels to around 50. 

 

The other day I upgraded my xfinity plan and needed to upgrade my current modem to a Docsis 3.1 to handle the new speeds. Upon logging in to my modems stats page I noticed that the downstream power levels were around 20-22 on all 31 channels. 

 

My apologies, there are two diffent issues here and I was getting past issues mixed up with current issues. However still, if you could please comment on what may be causing my downstream power levels to now be too high, I would appreciate it? Could the additional splitter I added with my previous modem be causing this?

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Adding splitters will add to upstream not lower it. Adding splitters will lower the downstream. Sorry, don’t take this the wrong way but it’s hard to take your word on what your levels actually are without physically seeing what you’re talking about. Do you have an amp instead of splitter? Take a look at your wiring, you want your modem coming off the first splitter there. Or hook up your modem at your point of entry before anything else and get an accurate reading of the outside levels coming in.
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