Legality: Was Comcast/etc....

[Jeremy Fowler]

They installed a jack for you!!!!!! I've got a nasty white cable that runs from
my living room up my stairs, down the hall and into my spare bedroom where my
PCs are!!! It's been there so long that I just learned to ignore it. I've been
meaning to make it neater, but...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of hanasaki
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 2:44 PM
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Legality: Was Comcast/etc....
>
>
> Just by your own Amp at a store :)  TWC came out and told me they had to
> have access to my computer or they wouldnt do anything for me.  They guy
> refused to pull out his laptop and plug it into my network or a cable
> modem outside the house.  The guy didn't even know enough to understand
> that no collisions on the NIC inside the house and 10+% on the outside
> NIC indicates a problem with their systems.
> 	<I run two NIC's in a linux box as a firewall.>
>
> Then again... It took a week and three managers to get RR to install a
> cable outlet in the wall.  The first two service staff that came out
> tell me "Oh ya, we install faceplates face up in the middle of
> everyone's living room.  Thats the way its supposed to be".
>
> FYI: I think the government has rules, enforced by financial penalties,
> about telephone uptime and even how long it takes to get a dialtone when
> you pick up the phone.
>
> JD Runyan wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan ,  at 01:51:24PM -0600, Bradley Miller wrote:
> >
> >>impose a burden if you switch on multiple TV's.  In the good old days,
> >>telephones caused a burden on a phone system.  Just ask someone about
> >>having an old analog phone with a few others . . . they would barely ring
> >>if you had a lot of phones on the line.   The model changed when phones
> >>went state of the art and were basically less of burden on phone
> circuitry.
> >>
> >>
> > If you are connecting an excessive amount of TVs that will be running
> > simultaneously, you will get signal degradation, unless you notify the
> > cable company so that they can increase the power to you home, just like
> > the telephone ringer not working properly if you fail to tell the phone
> > company you have more than n amount of phones.
> >
>
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