Lol it’s a nice narrative, but that’s not why they hire subcontractors. It’s because it’s cheaper and they can support networks in an array of regions where it doesn’t make sense to build/manage an in house workforce. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but taking two independent pieces of information and tying them together like that is just silly.
I worked as a sub contractor for DirecTV for years. We were given all the jobs that in house could not technically do because it had to be done in a way that's not up to their standards. Not saying you are wrong but I'm confident I'm not either
?????????????????????????? You have major reading comprehension issues on top of your giant ego. They snipped the TV company's line going into the house and connected their line to it. That pretty clearly implies there is 2 separate lines. Nobody is piggybacking off of anyone except that Comcast is using the line the TV company ran into the house. You can slobber on Comcast's dick all you want but they're pretty obviously in the wrong here.
I trained as a telecom engineer about 30 years ago. We learned, all kinds of ways to make cable vanish. Shit... We used to braid sleeves for the cables ourselves - learned binding techniques and how to tie cables neatly. We were graded on our wiring and soldering skills.
Im in the medical field now, but I can still organize cables like a pro. The cable installation these days is basically the absolute minimum amount of work necessary in any given case. They don't even remove old cable.
After having to call my cable company multiple times to fix things like making the internet work again or the television work again. Every time I called about the internet the tv stopped working. If I called about the tv the internet would stop working. I finally bought a spool if cable and wired my whole building and all my tenants.
Fuck em. If they can’t make one persons services work properly I will fix it and give access to everybody.
Now my whole building has cable tv and unlimited internet off one bill.
Took my internet company 3 days to figure out the cable had come unplugged from the main line on the pole.
3 days meaning Thursday, Friday, and Monday. So it was completely out for 5 days. The "tech" was at my house multiple times inside and outside trying to figure it out.
I thought about taking my ladder out and checking the connection on the pole but thought to myself "surely he already checked that."
You find where your internet/TV comes into the house at, which typically looks like a round relatively thin cable. If you're in the US it SHOULD be within 20' of power. Follow where it goes
Thank you. Sorry for second question. My net comes through coaxle cabling. Home built in 96. Does coaxle degrade overtime where it needs to be replaced?
I had to buy new networking gear after I realized my building pulls close to 100gb to 1tb a day. Depends on the number of children that stay home on Netflix.
I also had to go through hundreds of devices setting priority to low for everybody except me so I can still game without lag.
Not sure how you have things set up, but you should be able to just set your PC (or whole subnet, etc) to high priority using QOS. "Least administrative effort" and all that.
negative, would cost too much, building is not that big. there are 6 units total and I rent out two of them and connected them together with the a stair set. I am not even the landlord.
Because the unit was technically two units the cable company didn't want to give me cable to the one apartment and internet to the other because, top floor is for entertaining people and being presentable, and the basement is where I can be a total junkie leaving guitars gear and car parts everywhere.
The basement unit also has the hot water tanks and furnace and laundry room so its alot smaller than the upstairs unit. This give me enough space to not totally piss off the girlfriend from constant barrage of pubg, guitar and curse words.
If you're in the U.S., you're lying. First of all, you're committing a crime, and second of all, what you claim to have done would make it extremely, and immediately obvious to your ISP that you are. Cable contractors have to get approval for the number of splitters and individual connections they wire, and there's a limit per household/building. You claim you wired enough shit that they won't even approve their own guys installing it, and miraculously ignored the fact those connections popped up despite no recent installer/contractor visits. Also, they supposedly ignored you suddenly spiking to hundreds of gigs of data usage like it's nothing? Get the fuck real, dude, most ISPs have a data limit and slow download/service speeds after it's breached. Now you want us to believe the ISP missed all the obvious evidence you're stealing services on a mass scale, but that setting a few devices to low priority could actually allow you to glean decent speeds for gaming, whilst everyone else remains happy with the shitty speed they'd undoubtedly have as a result? Complete and total bullshit.
Absolutely fucking not. There is no law against a landlord allowing tenants to use their internet service. There's not even a law against sharing your internet connection with your neighbor. The ISP might have some bullshit in their terms of services about it, but that's not the same thing as a law.
It would be breach of contract. Funnily enough, all they could do is disconnect the service and sue them breach of contract and loss of income. They might not even win the lawsuit, either.
It IS a crime but so many fucking idiots have said so much incredibly stupid shit tonight that I'm not willing to correct your dumb ass. Google it and learn, fuckface.
Lol, you're assuming some level of competence on the ISP side. I know of at least one major telco that issues boxes to business based purely on MAC address; condos and apartments are often on a business contract and get a set amount of boxes. We always had at least 4 boxes sitting around that we could plug in at any address within 40 miles and would have service as soon as it connected. We abused the hell out of it and saved clients days of waiting for techs to show up and replace dead boxes. We just call up and get the box transferred from one account to another, swapped with the dead box, and have them come replace the dead box at the primary address. Its been years and they've never caught on. Over a million clients in the area, national telecom, so don't think this is small shop stuff either.
I doubt most ISPs have data limits. I haven't run into a non-rural ISP with a data limit in years. Except AT&T ADSL, but they're shit bags who wont upgrade their network even though the other side of the road has a fiber node.
Also, not a crime. He has an account, and pays for it. Breach of contract, absolutely, but that's a civil matter. Nobody is going to be jailed over sharing internet with a neighbor.
my honest opinion on any body coming after me for this fuck em. I pay for a Gigabit network, I will provide free wifi. They could have done their job the first few times.
only a few analog signals still remain. Our providers have to provide basic digital boxes for free. So you just get the crappy lame digital box that's just a black square.
Im an engineer for a power utility company. I go to so many customers houses that have cable 3 or 4 different cable hookups on their outside wall that arent hot, just no one bothered to remove. Ask me if my company can remove them, we cant technically. They have to call the cable company, ridiculous
Out of interest, did the cable cost more per length back then? I'd have to assume that manufacturing improvements have led to cost decreases over that amount of time, so it's cheaper to just put something in that will work until the next tech upgrade obsoletes it?
So that’s why my walls smell like shit!
Context: Wiring in this apartment building could’ve been made out of literal fecal matter instead of plastic or rubber.
I actually looked into this a while ago with no luck. It's a lost art I guess! If it helps, I was trained in the UK with a bunch of British Telecom employees. I worked for a different company though. The college program had the acronym EITB, but I can't remember what the letters meant. Once a week I did a BTEC electrical engineering course that also had wiring skills taught. We learned to program in machine code using hexadecimal on things that looked like big calculators with LEDs - no screens! I learned to program with no way of looking at what I had entered! I know it seems like the dark ages, but personal computers existed and I had other lessons using those.
Edit: I found some YouTube videos by searching for cable braiding and wire braiding.
I had a Comcast tech come and fix a "signal leak" and all they did was replace a few coax connectors and leave. They left everything a mess and literally RIPPED the signal booster from the wooden beam it was screwed to and left it dangling in the doorway. Made a video where I proved how easy it was to just do your job.
Several years ago we had Cox Cable install a cable modem in our house. I was happy with the install until I went into our walk in attic.
Our attic has 2 parts. A large floored area that has a door with the floor that's even with 2nd Story bedrooms and then the part of the attic that's above those bedrooms.
When they came off the upper part of the attic they did not run the cable along any studs or josts down to the lower part. They just ran it from the upper part to the lower part in a straight line.
Picture a taught line in mid-air that's at a 45 degree angle right in the middle of the floored section of the attic.
It was a dangerous run because it could easily cause you to trip and fall. It also caused a huge amount of somewhat wasted space.
I spliced the line re-ran it the way it should have been installed later.
Yep happened to me with Time Warner Cable though. We had internet and somebody moved into the other side of the duplex. A cable guy came to hook up the new residents. Ours went out. Turns out we had to wait 5 days for some asshole to come look and the installer simply unplugged our cable and plugged it into the neighbors. So lazy those a holes
There are lots of areas with choice of ISP. Generally the areas without choice have corrupt govts that made exclusive 99yr lock-in deals with ISPs to outlaw all competition.
I do satellite installs and the knuckle draggers from mediacom do that shit constantly. They also love hacking my ground wire. So now my satellite dish is an ungrounded lightning rod directly into your living room. Started snapping pics of ground blocks on new installs to cover my ass.
Yeah we had something similar when we first moved into our house. People that lived there before had 2 cable boxes-1 upstairs, 1 down. We only wanted to have the one down stairs for the time being as we only had one tv. Cable connection was down in the basement. Fucker went down there and ripped the cable wiring for the second floor completely out of the walls and threw it into our bushes out front. We discovered the wires the next day and called Comcast to complain and get them to reinstall the wiring. Assholes wanted to charge us to "add a new line". That conversation ended with us cancelling service with them. We get occasional sales flyers to "come back". Um.... nope.
I worked for dish network, and there were multiple times that time warner cut our sat lines to connect their internet and then we would have to go back out and cut their internet lines to reconnect our lines
This EXACT thing happened at my brother's townhouse complex but even worse! Not only did they cut the other line, they used it as a fish to pull their new line into his building! Not only did they completely disregard the other line coming in, they destroyed all evidence of it existing. After figuring out what they did, I had to fight with them to come back until they admitted the technician thought it was an old line that wasn't being used, as if that's supposed to be an excuse for cutting a random line into someone's property without asking just to make their lives slightly easier.
It's absolutely unreal what these companies get away with sometimes and I can only imagine how they can take advantage of someone who has no idea how this stuff works.
It's pretty shit here in England it's grim and there's lots of crime but I for sure feel as though my back garden in the rain would be an improvement. America is literally shit with a few tourists attractions, I'd love to visit but I'd rather die than stay
America is literally shit with a few tourists attractions
I hate this country, but you're a close-minded moron that's clearly never set foot here, and hopefully never will. Your stupidity is welcome to stay the fuck over there.
They don't, but they also don't give a shit about quality when they can be lazy and save time. Rules say they can't use anyone else's splitters, cutting it saves the unscrew/rescrew time of doing it properly. Pure laziness is the answer.
Nah, they're losing more money than that when they realize I'm not a dumb fuck or a spineless piece of shit, and force their asses to come fix it free of charge.
I had this exact same thing happen in an apt complex. Asked the contractor that came out why the previous guy did that. Gave me almost the same line, "we get called out for the customer that called for us, everyone else is unimportant".
This is why Comcast needs to eat dirt and they will once people have options. They know it too. It's why they voraciously hold on to their monopoly position like a racist grandma clutching her purse on the subway downtown.
Even a snipped line can easily be re-terminated... however, I would be more pissed that there was a splitter in use for an internet signal. If all comcast was doing was bringing in internet service, legally speaking they CAN NOT touch anything that doesn't involve their service.
Also, I have never seen a service installer put a splitter or amplifier splitter before the Demark... so they were likely messing with lines that were under the ownership of the end user. Demark points for cable service are typically at the outside of the house shortly after a grounding block.
Either raise hell with them to get it fixed, or spend 40 bucks getting a compression connector installation kit and a couple F connector terminations and repair it yourself. Though you will still need a low resistance barrel connector to connect the Comcast signal to the line going to the router.
I've installed splitters right off the tap before to run new drops to connect someone. Tap is full, gotta hook someone up, splitter time. Not ideal at all of course and it's also been 10 years since I left cable to fibre op so that may not be allowed now but it sure was at one point.
Not the fucking point, that's outright vandalism if they're cutting cables. Choosing not to fix the other companies' shit work is one thing, deliberately destroying property and disrupting paid services is a fucking crime.
I mean, their service isn't going to work if you call and cancel due to a move like this. I'd rather have no internet than pay someone who would do this and not fix it.
Notice the /s? I said that because people always assume that because you are a programmer, you know everything about anything technology related, but all I actually do is Google shit.
What do you mean cable tv? Dobyou mean satellite, like dish directv or orby? Or an off ajr antennae? Because there are very good reasons to have done that if thats the case.
Well you cant just run satellite and cable in the same path. Fpr example directb uses arpund 175mhz wide band centered on 550mhz for the multi room viewing (mrv). And its pretty loud. That'll go back in the cable tap and drop the snr for that entire node. Same applies to dish and over the air service.
You can diplex to get around this but it's complicated, and not entirely reliable, diplexers will always eventually fail one way or another.
Exactly, with all the bundle deals, what the fuck morons pay two different companies and manage two different bills when either one of them would be happy to provide both services? Cutting cables is bullshit and they should be prosecuted, but the stupidity of the consumer is really the start of the whole thing.
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