"luvlex1017" wrote in message
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Hi. I am so very frustrated and wondering if someone can help. My
husband
isn't very "handy" and my dad who is an electrician lives on the other
side of
the country and is in bed. So here's my story (sorry if it is long).

I have a 9 year old manufactured home that I bought in November of 07.
From
then til recently I had comcast for tv/internet/phone. For weeks my modem
would
reset itself over and over and over all day long. I had technicians out
numerous times and nobody could tell me what was wrong. So thinking it
was a
comcast issue, I switched to Qwest. The direct tv guy came out today to
install
my dish...and was here for 5 1/2 hours. He hooked up the first receiver
in the
living room and it worked fine. Kid #1's room-fine, kid # 2/3 room-fine.
He
goes to hook up the master bedroom, turns it on and it blew out the signal
in
EVERY room. So he spent hours replacing his own parts (the only cable he
didn't
replace is one preexisting one in the living room). After hours, all he
could
get to work were the living room and Kid #1 bedroom. He tells me he thinks
I
have a bad ground somewhere in the house. Oh, I should say, that
everything had
power, but no signal. So, I called my father who tells me to get an outlet
tester. I haven't tried all the outlets yet, but I just wantedsome other
opinions. Plus I flipped all my circuit breakers on and off and all the
outlets
in my house with the exception of the very front of my house are on one
circuit?
? And the one satellite in Kid 1's room, the picture freezes every time
she
changes the channel. Besides regular outlets, could outlets in power
strips
have the same grounding problem, should I test those? Could it be my
husband is
overloading our system with too much crap in the living room? I really
want to
pull my hair out right now. Thanks for reading this.
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I agree with Bill, although it sounds like a possible open neutral on an
Edison circuit, causing high voltage to some outlets. Definitely get an
electrician out, and give him all the info that you posted here