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Squirrel! Anyone have squirrels eating cabling?



No, literally... watch out for squirrels! I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out why my Internet kept intermittently going in and out (Xfinity 1Gb coax service in metro Detroit, Michigan, with my own DOCSIS 3.1 modem and an amazing Eero mesh). My Fingbox was really helpful in notifying me when stuff went offline and then came back online. Random outages that would last between 10 minutes and 5 hours sometimes, yet the cable TVs all worked fine; it was quite perplexing. Comcast's remote diagnostics said all was fine on their end, so I bought a different DOCSIS 3.1 modem (now I have a spare) to see if that was the problem. I eventually called Comcast and they sent out a repair guy the next day. Turns out the insulation in the coax cabling is corn-based, and my neighborhood squirrels figured that out and were slowly eating my cable line between the house and the utility pole! So... watch out for squirrels! ;-)
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Anyone have issues with squirrels and chewed cabelling on the Fing Community?
I've just slightly modified the title of this one. Wondering if there are other squirrel stories to add.
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The snakes did not breed much therefore they aren't killing many rodents, i guess most rodents get scared more by the scent of a snake than the scent of their own fried corpses.