zvogt
@sbcglobal.net
| reply to Keoway
Re: Corrected blocks going through the roof!
I see a lot of threads here of people questioning the volume of corrected blocks as assuming that is the cause of whatever their symptom is. I just don't think that's true. My numbers have always shown about 500,000,000 corrected blocks in the last 24 hours and zero uncorrected blocks. And I personally watch more than 50 hours of television each and every week. And I wouldn't say that I've "never" seen a blip or two of pixelization, but I would say that it's "almost never". My point is, I just don't think that the two events equate to each other in any way. I think the corrected blocks are just a fact of life, and by themselves are not indicative of anything wrong. |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs: | Sorry but that many corrected blocks in 24 hours is a problem. You shouldn't have anywhere near that many. |
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zvogt
@sbcglobal.net
| said by gdm  :Sorry but that many corrected blocks in 24 hours is a problem. You shouldn't have anywhere near that many. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I've had U-Verse service a little over year. My first gateway probably was reset multiple times over that first year. I recently got a new gateway when the first one catastrophically failed. But in all that time, on both pieces of hardware, I've never seen my number of UNcorrected be more than a single digit number. But despite the numbers, I've also never have had a problem with the picture on my TV service. I'm not sure I understand why the numbers themselves have any inherent value (positive or negative) given that I'm not having any negative side-effects. Clearly the technology is still capable of performing as expected independent of those statistics. If I wasn't nosy, and looking at that 2Wire diagnostic page, I would never even have known that the hardware is doing all these"corrections". I'm just really having a hard time understanding how you can label it as a "problem". |
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Tanshin
join:2009-07-18
West Simsbury, CT
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| said by zvogt :said by gdm :Sorry but that many corrected blocks in 24 hours is a problem. You shouldn't have anywhere near that many. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. I've had U-Verse service a little over year. My first gateway probably was reset multiple times over that first year. I recently got a new gateway when the first one catastrophically failed. But in all that time, on both pieces of hardware, I've never seen my number of UNcorrected be more than a single digit number. But despite the numbers, I've also never have had a problem with the picture on my TV service. I'm not sure I understand why the numbers themselves have any inherent value (positive or negative) given that I'm not having any negative side-effects. Clearly the technology is still capable of performing as expected independent of those statistics. If I wasn't nosy, and looking at that 2Wire diagnostic page, I would never even have known that the hardware is doing all these"corrections". I'm just really having a hard time understanding how you can label it as a "problem". You may have an issue past the router, eg in your LAN. |
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gdm
Premium,MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL
clubs:
·AT&T U-Verse
 ·AT&T CallVantage
| reply to zvogt
Just because you don't see it on the TV doesn't mean anything. Corrected blocks are normal and some have hardly any and others have alot. What defines alot not sure I can tell you that either but in a 24 hour period 100,000 is lot.
When I have heavy rain I get anywhere from 15k to 40k in 15 minutes. It does causes issues with the TV only voice and internet I have no issues.
The thing to remember is with U-Verse we are all setup differently to some extent internally and even externally. Different gauge wire on the poles, aerial vs. underground, etc. |
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