Anyone have a copy of the DSLR list of HighSplit locations and phasing?

zapman987 · 2025-01-31T16:56:32+00:00

Anyone have a copy of the DSLR (or otherwise) list of HighSplit locations and phasing? Bonus if it also has the status's of each.

Not_Sure

smccloud Why? I live in small town in rural area and I have Verizon 5G home internet available and TEC is surveying the poles for fiber expansion here. Does Charter want to continue to lose customers as customers have more and more options?

Motorola870

smccloud I don't see them just cancelling the upgrades due to scheduling issues with the DAA node software certification. They have also had issues sourcing amplifier gear. In my area it seems that Charter has had a hard time getting Arris/Commscope equipment as they have installed Broadband International BLE lids and full ACI General Instruments style housings along with Mini Bridger housings from either broadband international or ACI.

smccloud

Not_Sure I don't think they think they will lose them, to be honest. If they did, they would have high split rolled out in Monticello, MN, where two competing FTTH providers exist.

zapman987

Motorola870

Id be curious to see if they are still meeting their "$100 per house crossing". I bet that alone (which I think theyve since revised) is going to be the death.

That said, Spectrum and all cable providers know if they dont do this, theyve lost just about everyone anywhere there is fiber. They simply cant complete on price anymore even with fiber or anything else (wifi, cellular, etc).

smccloud

Well, I can tell you that Spectrum has renamed the high-split upgrade to "Network Evolution Upgrades" and the Big Lake MN area (where I live) has no planned upgrade time. The Networx Broadband expansion (local FTTH provider) cannot get done soon enough.

Motorola870

smccloud I don't think they have ever just called it High-Split upgrades internally High-Split only refers to the diplex filter split range.

They do have a timeline list of when an area is going to be upgraded internally but they aren't going to release the schedules to customers because they can lose their job if management finds out they spoke about it. That timeline has slipped for areas and likely is updated often with it being moved forward in time for completion.

I have a feeling Charter is getting ready to either rollout 2gig in areas completed in North Texas and other phase 1 areas or is prepping the frequency slots for it.

Looks like they are going to move secondary local channels to SDV in all markets to free up QAM space for OFDM. Which seems efficient considering how many more QAM carriers LA, Dallas, and NYC have had to reserve compared to places such as Ohio or Florida.

smccloud

They also blocked my followup post to everyone but me. So they don't like it if you speak badly about the lack of progress on this upgrade or the fact that you are un-happy with how much you pay for decreasing service.

Motorola870

noticed on the broadband label website the typical upload on gig has been lowered from 1025Mbps to 1010Mbps in high-split areas. I am guessing they slightly lowered the over provision to save capacity to better allocate the limited resources due to only having about 1.5Gbps total capacity per node segment.

smccloud

Motorola870 Honestly, if I had high-split right now, and I could get a deal by downgrading my service I would. I only have gig download so I can get something for upload.

Jaybonaut

Still haven't heard a peep about the entire state of Wisconsin

Motorola870

Jaybonaut

They just enabled 4 more cities in North Texas in the last week.

Farmers Branch
Hutchins
Lancaster
Wilmer

I think the BCL website was updated in the last week for these as I wasn’t seeing symmetrical speeds showing at addresses last week.

They are still upgrading areas here. I believe they may have a window of where they turn on the OFDMA channels and test before they launch. I know my node had the OFDMA signal according to the tech that visited last July due to low SNR severe noise issues and the official launch was 8/6/24. They wound up replacing a section of feeder to fix that issue on my cascade.

smccloud

Motorola870
Ugh, its like they don’t care about any areas but those near where they have already upgraded.

MacLeech

smccloud They have a large amount of work in their hubs before upgrades in the neighborhoods happen and symmetric speeds are rolled out.

smccloud

MacLeech I don’t think they have even started the hub that serves me 🙁

MacLeech

smccloud You’d never know until they turn up DAA nodes.

smccloud

MacLeech true, but I haven’t gotten any notice about work taking down my Internet overnight.

MacLeech

smccloud Like I said, you wouldn’t know about any of the hub work. They will build it all out before the field techs migrate a single node over.

smccloud

MacLeech I would think they’d want to get Monticello, MN upgraded (3 miles south of me) because there are two FTTH providers there.

Jaybonaut

MacLeech What’s the word on the equipment shortages

Motorola870

Jaybonaut There may have been equipment shortages in North Texas there was about a 9-10 month gap where Charter stopped deploying Technetix amplifiers in my city and finished the last hub in the last few months. Also noticed a shortage of Commscope amps for the rest of the Dallas headed fed areas to the point they were installing ACI GI/Motorola style mini-bridger and line extender housings not sure if the internals are Commscope though or ACI third party. Early on during the upgrades they were using Broadband International lid kits for line extender housings to replace General instruments lids that only had two external test point caps.

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