Well, Like the other post said, any guess are going to be pretty much a
"Wild Guess", unless there is an Power Company Electrician out there that
has seen this problem before. With that said, here is my educated guess.
Remember this statement, "With electronics, anything is possible." However,
I would say that it is most likely 97 % chance that it is purely
coincidence. But there is still that 3 % that I am not sure. I am sure we
have all seen that neat little statement that just about everything has on
it. "This device complies with the F.C.C. Bla Bla Bla, and Bla Bla Bla
must not cause any interference Bla Bla Bla and must accept any
interference Bla Bla Bla. If there is a problem, they will use that
stupid thing. You may want to call the Power Company and tell them of the
problem. See if they will check. But remember, if there is no prob, then
they may charge you for a service call.

Keep us posted on this situation, so we can keep it in our head, if this
problem ever arises again.

Rick

"Mike" wrote in message
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Over this past weekend (when I was away) the electric company came out
here and replaced our digital electric meter with one with the dials
on it. When I came back early Monday morning I noticed that the analog
cable tv was very poor, most of the channels were grainy or distorted.
I also noticed that my speed on dialup was rather slow at around 28k
and it's almost always around 40k. I have two ISPs and it was like
this on both of them and on different computers in two different
rooms. Both the cable and telephone line was working fine prior to the
meter being replaced and now they're both pretty crappy. This leads me
to believe that the electric company did something wrong when they
replaced the meter. Could this be possible? If so, what could they
have done?

The electric meter along with the cable and phone boxes are all pretty
much beside each other or at least pretty close to each other on the
outside of the house. I looked to see if anything appeared to be
damaged but everything looked alright. Any ideas on what the problem
could be? As far as I know, nothing else has happened around here to
cause these problems. The cable looks like there's some sort of
interference or like maybe the line was cut or damaged somewhere. Of
course I'm no expert and this is based on what I've seen in the past.
It just seems odd that both the cable and the phone line aren't
working properly since the electric meter was replaced.