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[BoredModerator]

The reception through Cox has been poor for month's. I thought it may be that I have basic cable but saw someone else's tv had the same poor reception. Anyone know what's up?

 

[bg02445]

I don't think it's isolated to WPRI...I notice poor reception and blocking on WJAR, but not WPRI. What town are you in?

You might also want to post this here:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1175637&page=10

People working for Cox post there.

 

[BoredModerator]

Thanks BG; I posted it there.

 

[Skynet74]

I don't have cable. The signal has been fine Over The Air.

 

[necrat123]

The reception through Cox has been poor for month's. I thought it may be that I have basic cable but saw someone else's tv had the same poor reception. Anyone know what's up?

It's probably not poor reception, but rather ingress. WNAC digital operates on VHF channel 12. If you have a bad cable connection or a leaky one, the DTV signal ingressing will make the cable channel look weak (in the analog days you'd see a herringbone on it, and the blanking bar show up) because the digital signal looks like noise on top of the analog. Try channel 13, do you see the same "weakness" there? If you do or it doesn't look "as weak", that is your problem right there.

We feed COX via a baseband signal , not over the air, so if it isn't that, it will be a Cox issue.

I have a COX analog drop here in the shop and it looks as good as analog cable can look. (it's clean and not noisy).
So I suspect it is ingress.

Your best bet is to call Cox and have a tech come look at the signal in your house to make sure it is not leaking. Cable leakage is a serious deal with the FCC, and COX can shut the cable drop off, if the leakage is exceeding the FCC limits until it is fixed.