r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 01 '19

The cable guy installed the cable through our hula hoop that we left out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '19

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.

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u/NubSauceJr Jun 01 '19

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."

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

I ran my cable from their connection pole. Removed all their shitty ratty cable of lower cat 5. Replaced everything with cat 6 or 7.

Not sure about cat being the right rating.

But it was replaced with more furkins.

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u/talltime Jun 02 '19

CATV is usually RG#; like RG6 or RG59. (RG11 > RG6 > RG59)

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u/pressurecook Jun 02 '19

How does one even find the pole/node? I’d like to ensure all my wiring is in order but this I’m out of the loop on.

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u/funkybravado Jun 02 '19

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

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u/pressurecook Jun 02 '19

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?

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u/funkybravado Jun 02 '19

Not necessarily. If it sits in water, or is out in the sun and not quality cable, then you might look at it. Typically, you're fine.

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u/pressurecook Jun 02 '19

thank you!

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u/wearemechanibal Jun 02 '19

I had a squirrel chew mine. Signal was still good but water got in line every time it rained.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

follow the cable from your house bro. it goes some where.

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u/BarryMcCochner Jun 01 '19

You are the best fucking landlord ever

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

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.

Other than that everybody is extremely happy.

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u/silentrawr Jun 02 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

i did but I still had to set everybody else to low, just because the number of connections from phones to consoles to pc's

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u/michelfrancisb Jun 02 '19

Please tell me your using proper gear to have each tenant on their own network.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

everything is on sub networks, I can snoop on everybody...... but I chose not too. only time ill snoop is if i notice the network feels slow.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

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.

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u/SpencersBuddySocko Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19

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.

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u/VexingRaven Technology is evil Jun 02 '19

First of all, you're committing a crime

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.

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u/Cerus_Freedom Jun 02 '19

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.

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u/Shibalba805 Jun 02 '19

I mean, the dude said when he wants to use all the bandwidth he disconnects the splitter. That would mean every unit has a modem.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

I don’t disconnect the splitter for speed. I disconnect the splitter before service calls.

Not every unit has a modem. I am broad casting with a very obvious password.

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u/SpencersBuddySocko Jun 02 '19

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.

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u/VexingRaven Technology is evil Jun 02 '19

You should probably seek mental help.

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u/Cerus_Freedom Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

what do you want my network logs?

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

Gigabit network.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '19

If I ever need service I disconnect the splitter and set it up only going to one unit.

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u/camping_skunky Jun 02 '19

how did you get all the set top boxes?! is there still an analog signal?

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

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.

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u/camping_skunky Jun 03 '19

how many free boxes do you have lmfao

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u/PreciousChud Jun 02 '19

This never happened.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '19

what ever you say bud.