elionbel Posted:

How is your modem connected into the wall?

A lot of times lazy ****ty installers will split your Cable at the wall and run one wire to the TV and the other to your modem. This kills the connection like crazy since it’s already being split at the street level, then split again at your house/apt, and THEN if it’s split AGAIN at the wall, that’s a **** ton of signal ****up.

You won’t notice it right away, but the signal degradation slowly builds up over time.

So see if your modem is connecting to the wall via a splitter, or even if it’s being split at all after it comes in through the outside if you live in a house.

If you live in an apt, you’re kinda ****ed, as it’s the only way you can connect since installers generally don’t **** with apts.

I live in an apartment that’s got university internet. I just connect my ethernet into the wall. We have a wireless router but I disconnected from it to see if the problem would still happen and it does.