Bad enough they raised my bill to almost $146. But lately the service is awful. My TV is having pixelation and sound dropouts, both on recorded and live programs. Seems to happen most in the evenings.
I am having Optimum Voice issues as well, calls are getting dropped frequently and people calling me say they have crosstalk. On a few occasions, when they dialed my number, they got somebody on the line that wasn't me and didn't speak english!
Then there's the internet. It is slooooow. Sometimes takes me a minute or more to load a web page. Often it will just refuse to look up sites and I have to unplug the modem and plug it back in (only thing that seems to work).
Last time a tech came he said the lines in my area (Westbury,NY) are overloaded. Basically the nearest node is 1/2 mile away, so it's a 1/2 mile cable run, to the nearest fiber. Fios cannot get here soon enough.
Anyway, I know how to get the diagnostic screens on my Explorer 8300, but how do I understand what the data means? How do i check for low signal levels and interference?
I am having Optimum Voice issues as well, calls are getting dropped frequently and people calling me say they have crosstalk. On a few occasions, when they dialed my number, they got somebody on the line that wasn't me and didn't speak english!
Then there's the internet. It is slooooow. Sometimes takes me a minute or more to load a web page. Often it will just refuse to look up sites and I have to unplug the modem and plug it back in (only thing that seems to work).
Last time a tech came he said the lines in my area (Westbury,NY) are overloaded. Basically the nearest node is 1/2 mile away, so it's a 1/2 mile cable run, to the nearest fiber. Fios cannot get here soon enough.
Anyway, I know how to get the diagnostic screens on my Explorer 8300, but how do I understand what the data means? How do i check for low signal levels and interference?