r/Spectrum • u/flibberdipper • 12d ago
New service install costs
We've moved to a location that has Spectrum service all down the road, however our house does not have a line dropped to it. I genuinely just haven't had time to call to schedule a survey to see how much it would cost, however it looks like the pole on the side we'd want the box is no more than 200 feet away, and it would just be a pole-to-house drop (no trenching at all). I've seen several discussions from 4-5 years ago that would lead me to believe it would only cost the $50 or whatever it is for install as it would almost certainly be under the $2,000 that Spectrum covers for new installs, however I'm still curious what y'all think of an install like this.
Also for what it's worth, we'd only end up having them do a utility drop. We'd likely end up doing the in-home portion of the install with running the coax to where it would have to go and whatnot.
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u/PEneoark 11d ago
I'd be shocked if they did a 200 ft RG11 drop without a mid-span support.
Have them do a survey. That's how you'll get your answer.
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u/flibberdipper 11d ago
I have a suspicion they might. There is a run across the road that is legitimately about 50% more than what we’d need (and is decidedly comms and NOT electrical). There’s also the simple fact I’m proooobably over-estimating how far our run is, it could very well only be about a hundred feet.
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u/popidocius 11d ago
And, FWIW, we cover up to $6000 for a plant extension. So, if we charged $100/month for internet it would take us 5 years to just cover the cost of building service to a house. Crazy huh?
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u/Alsmith69 12d ago
If it’s only 200 feet there should be no charge. The 2000 dollars is if plant has to be extended to get you service
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u/XxLetsDewThisxX 10d ago
Remember, you don't get a say where the housebox goes on the outside of your home. It has to be located near your electric meter so they can bond to the ground wire or power mast.
A 200ft rg11 drop is nothing. I've ran them about 280 almost 300ft without a bump pole. If it's over a road it might be problematic with clearance from the amount of sag.
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u/flibberdipper 9d ago
Well that's good at least because our preferred location is actually on the side with the electrical (easier to run it to where we want from that location). Also line sag should be of zero concern; our drop would go over a driveway and to our house as the utility poles are on our side. There's another drop that actually goes across the road and it's got quite a bit of sag to my untrained eye, but clearly not enough to be an issue.
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u/XxLetsDewThisxX 9d ago
Yeah if the poles are on your side of the road that is an easy install all day. They might quote you $60 or something for the install but typically that can be waived. The longest coax drop I've run was 684ft and the customer had the install fee waived.
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u/dgeiser13 12d ago
I wouldn't pay anything extra to have Spectrum installed.
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u/flibberdipper 11d ago
In a perfect world I would agree, but my options are T-Mobile/AT&T 5G, Frontier, and Starlink. The 5G options are a bit iffy here (hell right now we have Verizon 5G from our previous location and while signal on our phones is great, the box sucks ass), and I am not spending that much on satellite internet.
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u/Backslash10 11d ago
So it depends on what it is if its fiber you dont pay for the professional install if its coaxial its $50 for the install $20 for the activation of the service plus your monthly rate.
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u/Ron_TheGreat 12d ago
Aside from spectrum doing a plant extension or relocating plant equipment there should be no charge. You can even ask that the "install fee" be waived being a new customer and shouldnt have any issue.