[PVRCNC] U verse OT + MORE

[alsopb at nc.rr.com]

I don't know about the U verse gateway but I had a rather hard to find problem with a ndwly installed Time Warner Cable.  The cable box has the WIFI option built in.   However it was "turned off" by the company since I didn't want to spend the extra $12/month.  Instead  I use my router's WIFI.  The router WIFI quit working after the new cable modem was installed.  It connected, disconnected, connected, disconnected in an endless loop.

After much blaming of my router by TWC,  I tried moveing the WIFI channel and all was well.  Apparently while WIFI capability was turned off, apparently the RF carrier was not.

Go figure....

73 de Brian/K3KO

On 12/29/2013 5:15 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> The answer is that the U-verse gateways in use are the 3800 and 3801, the
> -01 being a much beefier and more noise and interference-free version of
> the 3800.  Both are one-size-fits-all. Wireless is in the gateway box, but
> you can turn it off in the menu. My 3801 has been a horse and utterly
> satisfactory up to now. It covers downstairs and west end of my house
> better than anything I had down there before.  Have a wireless on CAT-5
> upstairs for shack and the apartment on east end.  The 3801 wireless is the
> one that is in the family mob smartphones, tablets and laptops they drag in
> here.  Only the wife's office computer (in the same computer desk as the
> gateway), and my shack computers are on CAT-5 network to the gateway. The
> CAT-5 also carries the TV in my house.
> 
> 73, Guy