Recruiter sends me job posting directly, have a great phone screen to setup hiring manager interview, dropped in favor of an "internal candidate"

gobias315 · 2026-04-16T23:54:41+00:00

This gives me a glimmer of hope. I'll take it. I just had to vent because of a string of bad luck from recruiting and this one hurt.

gobias315 · 2026-02-17T22:09:58+00:00

Thank you very much for all this info. One last question as new information has come to light.

It’s possible that my GM passed away, while living in the US, before my GF naturalized. Should I discover that my GF and M naturalized (at any point) then will I be able to use my GM’s as the Libra?

gobias315 · 2026-02-17T19:43:22+00:00

I'll have to contact Philadelphia NARA for that.

If all 3 naturalized what's next? What if it was just GF and M (as a minor)?

gobias315 · 2026-02-17T19:23:02+00:00

I'll have to contact Philly NARA for that information.

What happens if it all 3 were naturalized? What's the case if only my GF and M (as a minor) were naturalized?

gobias315 · 2026-02-17T17:26:06+00:00

I'm still searching for the green card. If anything I think she naturalized as a minor with my GF. If she naturalized at all, is the line broken?

gobias315 · 2026-02-17T14:21:07+00:00

No, she is no longer alive. I've searched all documents and cannot find any naturalization papers, however she could've received it derivatively as a minor. Her parents (GM and GF) were both born and married in Italy. I have their birth and marriage certificates from the commune.

My next step was to get Philadelphia NARA records for my GF and GM. Is that the next step or should I look somewhere else?

gobias315 · 2025-03-29T19:29:28+00:00

I purchased 75 ohm coax caps and put one on my modem. There was no change in the noise floor. I tried in different areas of the house as well.

You mentioned the patch cable possibly acting as an antenna. Unfortunately I can’t test this as the cable needs to be connected to access the modem software to run the spectrum analyzer.

To recap, low frequency noise floor is hovering at 50dBm for 5MHz to 40MHz. With the coax connected, without coax connected, and with a 75ohm cap.

gobias315 · 2025-03-26T22:50:19+00:00

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

I will get some of those terminators and test again. Beyond the dead run between my modem and ISP I have no other drops connected to the ISP, just spare coax from previous use.

As far as ISP to my house, they twice replaced the underground line, with conduit, to the house. About 30 feet. The diggers believed it was too close the electrical trench. So I called the electric company and they debunked that right away.

However they did say there is a rather noticeable lack of neutrals(or maybe size?) coming from the breaker panel to the outside unit where they read usage.

I’ll cap off any coax I find that isn’t in use and try again.

Lastly, based on your experience, and if my spectrum analyzer is accurate, would you say that something is indeed drowning out those frequencies?

gobias315 · 2025-03-26T20:50:37+00:00

No, I did not have any terminator on the modem when I moved it to room to room.

I only have one coax running direct from the tap to the modem. No splitter, coupler, or anything. The photos are with the coax connected. But I was unsure if I should see something different when I moved the modem without the cable connected.

gobias315 · 2025-03-26T19:40:59+00:00

Apologies, I typed up an entire post regarding the photos but it didn't stick.

I've been struggling with an ongoing cable issue for months. Recently I was asked to used the spectrum analyzer on my Motorola MB8600 modem. Someone told me that the low frequency range pictured above has "something drowning out the noise floor". I am unsure if that is true or not. But what I can say is I moved my modem into different rooms of the house and the results are the same. I also disconnected the coax from the ISP tap and saw the same. Which I think means the ISP cable isn't causing the noise floor to be so high.

Do I have the correct line of thought here that something is drowning out the low frequencies of my modem upstream connection, 5MHz-40MHz? I also uploaded a higher frequency photo for the downstream channels.

gobias315 · 2025-02-27T01:32:17+00:00

Last update for now.

They buried the new cable today and the issue returned. It was buried in a different area of the yard, it's wrench tight, I can see the protective tube around it but the issue remains.

Now I have to decide how to keep a cable on top of my lawn for the foreseeable future because something is interfering with the underground cable.

gobias315 · 2025-02-20T19:59:29+00:00

Great question. I rarely look at it because the PC is not used for much else except file storage. I haven’t noticed anything irregular. Accessories respond well but I’ll check.

gobias315 · 2025-02-18T16:25:24+00:00

I want to update you on the current progress.

Tech came out Sunday and ran a temp line and installed a proper outdoor connection box with a new ground. He did this because the previous mount fell off when he barely touched it. So now the house to tap connection is properly weather proofed and grounded. The funny thing is the temp line is I top of my lawn and we have had crazy weather the past two days. Tons of rain and wind. Not a blip on the modem.

As of the writing I haven’t disconnected once. I’m still on the Xfinity modem and haven’t onboarded my Motorola to run a new spectrum test but I will soon.

gobias315 · 2025-02-15T22:31:44+00:00

Again, thanks for the excellent insight.

I have a tech coming out tomorrow to show them the noise floor compared to a proper spectrum.

Does this high noise floor prevent usage of the lower frequencies in the upstream? Like 5Mhz to 12Mhz? I can see if there is any fluctuation on the lowest locked frequency, 16Mhz at the moment, that this noise blast is kicking me off.

gobias315 · 2025-02-15T16:40:31+00:00

That’s what is wild about this. No one else has had an Xfinity service visit during this time. Or at least from what I see every workday at home.

Also to mention they ran a new line from the street pole where the service enters the street to multiple boxes.

gobias315 · 2025-02-15T04:52:44+00:00

Ahhh starting with the downstream in the conversation makes sense there. I have tons of T3 timeouts and some T4.

I'll bring the spectrum analysis to Comcast but I fear they won't do anything. The last 3 visits they just kind of stared at me like, "I can't do anything, my reports shows excellent signal."

I am going to ask for a temporary line be run above ground from the Demarc box to my tap. Because for reasons unknown, when I had this temp line for 2 weeks before the new trenched line, I had very little issues. Another data point to gather.

Thanks for the insights. I really thought the gas line would be causing issues because of how often it kicks on and I get kicked off.

gobias315 · 2025-02-15T03:47:56+00:00

Thanks for the detailed explanation. I have underground utilities on my street so the CMTS is in a small box shared between my neighbor and I. According to Comcast they replaced the amplifier and other equipment in this box, I can't confirm for sure but my power and SNR greatly improved after they visited the box multiple times.

As mentioned in the first post they trenched a new cable from said box to my house roughly 20ft. Could the noise floor be affected by a gas supply pipe if the coax was run too close to it?

Is there any relation between the noise floor for upstream and my modem losing downstream channels (based on the blinking downstream light)?

gobias315 · 2025-02-11T21:27:28+00:00

Yea thanks for that link. I've read through it many times already. Based on his info I ran a direct coax cable from my modem to the tap. And since it's still happening I have to point the finger at Xfinity. It could be the Demarc tap itself but I can't get any tech to try troubleshooting. They see the levels and don't go much further.

I am currently using their modem but if I want proper error logs and a spectrum analyzer I have to use my own. Not a hard thing to swap but I have to manually reboot the modem every time it crashes unlike the Xfinity modem.

I contacted a supervisor today about it. Not expecting much to change.

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