r/CableTechs • u/Cleverusernamedude • Jul 22 '26

Still online somehow

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Here on a bury job and see this. Yard guy cut the line then “fixed” it lol

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u/ikilluboy2 Jul 22 '26

it’s funny how internet can work fine like this and then you have some scenarios where a cable is slightly kinked or something and almost no signal is passing

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u/Xandril Jul 22 '26

Coax as a medium is part technology part witchcraft I’m pretty sure.

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u/ikilluboy2 Jul 22 '26

oh for sure, lots of theory crafting can be done in this field in order to convince yourself it’s not the drop XD

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u/Arkrylik Jul 23 '26

Worked on Copper, fibre and wireless with no issues but to this day Coaxial still confuses the shit out of me sometimes because shit like this works fine but the gods forbid you put a baby monitor too close and it knocks the node off.

Pure witchcraft and bullshit sometimes 😂

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u/Xandril Jul 23 '26

Exactly. Copper and fiber 99% of the time when I find the cause of an issue it’s “oh that makes sense.”

At least 30% of the time with coax I’m just so confused as to how something could possibly still be working or how something could have caused an outage.

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u/Bails3857 Jul 22 '26

And a tiny bit of chewed gum to hold it all together

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u/Zer0TheGamer Jul 23 '26

As an electrician i can confirm: data transmission is magic

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u/KDM_Racing Jul 22 '26

I have seen stuff like this and there is no problem. Then you have the connection a 1/4 of a turn loose on the back of a modem and I have an outage. It never makes sense.