Journal jallison's Journal: Cable silliness
So the installer shows up and starts gazing up at the nearest telephone pole. He's obviously stumped. "Where's the drop?" He asks me. How the hell should I know? You're the cable guy. So he hunts around for a while, and finally comes up with a few nuggets of wisdom:
- We'll need to pull the cable down from that pole up there (third pole up the hill from where I live, about 500' away)
- We'll need to "rewire the whole house." Meaning running cable along the eaves and drilling through the wall to get it inside.
- "This place isn't even grounded." I don't know what this was supposed to mean so I let it lie.
He offered to come back with a team of "3 or 4 guys" to do the job. I declined. I currently have Dish Network, and they've got the cable runs in the attic where I don't have to see them. Very nice.
All this, by the way, despite the fact that my neighbor down the hill, thus further from the magic pole, has Adelphia (now Time Warner) cable.
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