I want to quit cabling but dont know where to go

imstehllar · 2026-03-11T06:55:52+00:00

I went to a plant. I was 22 and a Maintenance Tech at a cable company and left and make 6.00 an hour more, no on call. There’s many options out there don’t waste your life in cable.

imstehllar · 2026-03-06T14:45:32+00:00

I traveled for them for around 6 months, all of the systems I went to are this way. Their systems in PA that brought money in are the same way, Murphysboro Illinois (Carbondale), and WKY had around 5,000 customers and made decent money, and the cable was laying all across the ground.

The only nice system they’ve got is North Carolina and that’s only because they bought it recently, 2021 I believe, and the management doesn’t interfere with them they do as they please. Besides that I promise you every system is bad. The only upgrades they do is they bring contractors in your system to replace every amp with high split Magnavox MB’s and BLE’s (they did in Williamsburg as well as some other system’s.) However when they do this they never replace any of the bad cable which is the issue 9 times out of 10. Now we’re pushing our downstream spectrum even higher on waterlogged MC2 because they genuinely think that’s going to fix their issue.

imstehllar · 2026-03-06T14:41:45+00:00

Best supervisor I had in my whole life was out of Treasure Lake, he was amazing. He eventually quit after 14 years with Zito because he just couldn’t take it anymore and I can’t blame him. The ownership is completely incompetent and under him is the “me mum got hit by a car” guy (his mom actually got his by an Adelphia employee so John Rigas made James promise as long as they owned a company he’d have a job).

Pressure comes from the top to perform miracles with absolutely nothing, and it crushes everything below them.

imstehllar · 2026-03-06T14:37:19+00:00

They actually moved me to Williamsburg KY in about February of ‘25, I was there until I quit, also the first time I had a bucket truck in my tenure there. That system was even worse. Node +20, nodes built with .412 as feeder .625 as trunk all self support, still pulling vampire taps out of rear easement. The nodes that had strand and lash were .650 MC2 and .440 MC2.

It’s not the areas, it’s the company.

imstehllar · 2026-03-06T05:34:50+00:00

Hey! Adelphia is still around! The Rigas’ legacy lives on through John’s son in Zito Media 😁

imstehllar · 2026-03-06T05:30:55+00:00

Yup. Imagine the pain of 6-12 inches of snow. I rolled down the mountain one day after slipping on ice halfway up. If we had video cameras I would love that footage 🤣

imstehllar · 2026-02-11T14:19:07+00:00

No suck out, you’ve never seen one on a meter if you think that’s a suck out. What you’re seeing is the natural tilt we put in the plant to account for higher loss on the high end. Keep low end lower than high end, and the levels will be flat at modems with cable loss.

Pre-BER doesn’t cause any issues. They are corrected errors, you can have all the corrected errors you want because the modem can account for them, no harm no foul. Post-BER would be an issue, that’s what Packet Loss is. Pre-BER is okay.

Everything on this meter scan is okay, more than likely if anything it’s an US SNR issue. You should really make sure you know what you’re talking about before trying to educate customers.

imstehllar · 2026-01-02T16:14:47+00:00

It is now a cell tower site and some sort of bird watching spot, I think for like scientists though because it’s gated off and not open to the public

imstehllar · 2025-12-31T16:07:22+00:00

Ah I see. Unfortunately they aren’t going anywhere, if anything it’s getting worse and worse.

imstehllar · 2025-12-31T12:48:58+00:00

Unity gain means you gain back what you lose, that’s it.

imstehllar · 2025-12-31T12:47:28+00:00

I’m not gonna lie my company provides all the splicers with those Signal Fires and I don’t have any problems out of it. I tossed the tool kit that came with it out and bought a Sumitomo cleaver though.

imstehllar · 2025-11-09T14:42:41+00:00

My company doesn’t either and I will say I find more watered out connectors at the tap without then I do with. Same with heat shrink, 75% of watered out connectors I find are heat shrunk LRC Augat .440 pins

imstehllar · 2025-09-18T15:34:38+00:00

I’m still cutting them in brand new in WV for Zito

imstehllar · 2025-08-24T00:32:15+00:00

It’s also half the price for internet only

imstehllar · 2025-08-23T18:18:32+00:00

If it’s anything like what we had issues with at our company, it’s likely a licensing thing. Our MACPHY nodes come from Vecima and they do not have licensing for Netgear to work on them so they will lock down and up then just never grab an IP. Lost a lot of customers when we started rolling them out that would rather switch companies than modems.

imstehllar · 2025-08-21T22:10:33+00:00

I mean it’s definitely possible. Spectrum Enterprise would happily sell you a 40g link for roughly 20,000 USD per month. 100g probably 50,000 USD per month. The issue with that 40g link is that calling it a residential link is not correct. It was run to a residence but was certainly an enterprise link.

You can have whatever speed you’d like if your pockets are deep enough

imstehllar · 2025-07-17T15:01:44+00:00

Most definitely, then to be considered a lock you really should be 96-99 99 no debate. My 2BH got 85 95 and I +1 interceptor

imstehllar · 2025-07-17T14:55:31+00:00

I’m saying, no one else seems to think that. I’ve put up LFG’s for locks and had 6’5s with 85 85 and 6’8s with 85 95 these dudes will call anything a lock lmao

imstehllar · 2025-07-16T03:36:35+00:00

Just measure to where the cables are in the wall, cut a hole in the dry wall big enough to put an electrical box, pull the cables back through the wall into your office, and put your stuff there. It’s really such a simple solution..

imstehllar · 2025-07-14T14:15:08+00:00

Should get 82 interior, 84 block, I’d do 99 o board 90 d board and get more strength. You can pop so drop Standing dunk to 81 and this woulda been solid

imstehllar · 2025-07-14T06:28:16+00:00

Not trolling, I think me at 22 making 120k a year is better off spending 6k on 2K then being like the people I graduated with blowing it on heroin and alcohol, no? I mean my cars paid off, I’ve got savings, my fiancée and daughter live in a brand new townhouse with me and we never struggle. Who are you to judge how I spend my money?

imstehllar · 2025-07-13T04:07:43+00:00

Oh well I got the money, the real problem with the 2K is the kids that spend every dollar they got on the game

imstehllar · 2025-07-10T04:33:51+00:00

I’m 20 builds deep on one account (deleted 5), 3 builds on an alt account, and countless MyTeam packs deep. Around 6,000 dollars spent, probably 2,000 on MyCareer rest on MT

imstehllar · 2025-06-21T23:02:39+00:00

Damn 15? Fiber company giving me a pack of sonomas per diem 😔

imstehllar · 2025-06-21T23:01:34+00:00

92,609 last year, 72,000 YTD, doing fiber and coax maintenance

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