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Audio Dropouts and Unavailable Channels
LeonD
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For months now I've been dealing with random audio dropouts. They can happen on any channel. It appears to happen mostly with popular shows. The show we watch that it happens most on is NBC's Tonight Show. And if I DVR a show with the dropouts, the dropouts appear on the recording.
I've had technicians out to the house three times to fix this problem. First time he replaced the set top box, second time he changed some connectors outside and third time, more connectors outside were changed. All three times, they left saying all signal levels look good. Later that night, the trouble reappeared.
More recently (this past weekend), I've gotten error messages saying that a channel was unavailable. On Saturday it was with ESPN and on Sunday it was CBS. Both times, popular football games were being played. And right after the games, the stations returned.
Not sure if the two problems are related but they both seem like capacity/bandwidth problems.
Any ideas what to do next? Thanks.
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Are the issues you described only on the set top box, or are you also using one of the apps? Do you recall what the error message read?
It was only the set top box. I actually pulled up the station on my pad and streamed it to my TV.
I need to see if I can find the code. I did call in a ticket on the Saturday outage and the code should be on that ticket.
The code was: Spectrum STBH-3802
Thanks. What is the model of the set top box and approximately how long have you had the box?
We have a Spectrum 210 box. We received it in February after we started having problems with our old, SA box.
Any ideas what to try next?
Good Morning @LeonD, I have reached out to our engineers to look into this further. If there is any update we will provide that information here.
@LeonD, I have received follow up from our local team and they are requesting a technician come back out to investigate this further as to why you are continuing to experience this issue. We can have a technician out today from 1-2pm if that would work for you.
@LeonD, I have received follow up from our local team and they are requesting a technician come back out to investigate this further as to why you are continuing to experience this issue. We can have a technician out today from 1-2pm if that would work for you.
As a follow up to the above,
Pixilation and audio drop outs are almost never the result of a bad box, but are often an issue with inside or outside wiring. Have the tech do a signal and drop line test. Try to avoid rebooting any equipment between now and your appointment to avoid a resetting of the signal error codes..
You can also set up signal monitoring with Spectrum for ESPN and CBS. I would recommend a 30 day signal monitoring. Discuss this with your tech.
Satch
When a network is not available during sporting events, you can safely assume that one of the sports leagues or franchises has invoked a blackout. It has to do with the business contracts that the networks sign to broadcast the events, so the participants can collect increased gate revenues at the event location. If Spectrum accurately geofences their network facilities for the blackout, you shouldn't be able to view those events using the app either.