MysticGogeta
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League City, TX
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| Don't like Comcast much but
"Underground vaults that freeze solid pose a real challenge when it comes to maintenance, fiber or otherwise.”
I could see where this is a problem when your equipment is underground and you have a foot of snow over it.
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TKJunkMail
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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3 edits |  Spoiled residents whining over nothing
Want to see a view of the neighborhood where the residents are complaining?
The green rectangular boxes, about 1 foot or 2 feet high and 2 feet long, are being installed on the strips of ground between the street and sidewalk.
University Drive resident Bernie Goldberg(pic below), who gave a lengthy presentation on his objections to the boxes at a recent township supervisors meeting. “They look like trash cans sitting out in front of your house permanently.” 
Their houses are so far from the street they would never even see these small boxes. Just some people with very little problems to deal with looking for something to complain about. I know the area well(my sister lives a couple blocks away) and you would never even notice these boxes if you stood 5 feet from them. The landscaping blocks them from view.
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jerryjam
@verizon.net | I dont know what brain surgeon made this comment but underground vaults are climate controlled. |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA
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4 edits | Comcast assailed for brightness of full Moon
The residents for the most part were bitching about NON-Comcast equipment. Comcast received photos of different equipment that residents were whining about and nearly all of them weren't Comcast's. Why not bitch about the full moon being too bright and blame that on Comcast as well?
Gotta love it. |
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axgupta1
join:2005-02-13
Mechanicsburg, PA
·Comcast
| Over reacting
We have several of Comcast green colored boxes installed in our neighborhood of 72 homes. I do not know what these boxes are for but I have sometimes seen Comcast people working on these boxes.
These boxes were installed in the front yard of residents when the neighborhood was built about 5 years ago. I have never heard of anyone not buying a house or people having trouble selling their house or property value declining because of these boxes. In fact, some residents have done very creative landscaping around these boxes and it looks beautiful. |
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NetAdmin
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join:2008-05-22
1 edit | These people can cry me a river...
The green boxes that these property owners are bitching about are used by providers ALL OVER the nation and the number of people that whine about them are a tiny fraction of the people that have them in their lawn. I know of at least two neighborhoods outside the city for upper-middle and upper income households that have them in their lawn and I've never heard of anyone in those people complaining about them.
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Ohyouiowemeto
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| Green Cable Boxes
Those small green boxes you see up down your street are called 'pedistals'. They contain cable connections to 4 and sometime 6 houses at a time. A real thick cable runs Under the ground from box to box up and down the street. Usually in the garage or on the side of each house is a cover plate. Open the cover plate and you will see the cable connections in the wall from a thinner cable that goes through a piece of PVC tubing underground out to the small green box at the front of someones yard. Usually these boxes are hidden in clumps of bushes but sometimes they are completely out in the open.
The boxes that the phone companies are installing are 4 and 5 feet high an 4 to 5 feet wide to about 3 feet deep. there is one at the end of my street right next to the sidewalk. I hear it humming every evening when I walk by while walking my dog.
For me it's not a problem but for the two houses at the end of the street....... |
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morbo
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clubs: | you make a good point. the AT&T boxes are much different than anything i've seen before. they are huge and are always humming... |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
1 edit | Maybe it's just me, but...
... I would much rather have a green briefcase or pedestal as opposed to beige refrigerator any day!
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Smith6612
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united state
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1 edit | reply to Ohyouiowemeto
Re: Green Cable Boxes
Exactly. Adelphia back when they were around when my neighborhood was built 7-8 years ago placed green cable boxes near the telephone boxes for Verizon and the power transformer, since my utilities are all underground and they're not a problem for my neighborhood. Some of my neighbors found some good use for them and they serve as good garden decorations  . Otherwise, I have one of those small cable boxes on my lawn, and dispite me not having cable, just satellite, phone and DSL it's not a problem. They show up every other house anyways abnd they only serve as a gateway from your house to the cable network. |
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rody_44
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Quakertown, PA | reply to jerryjam
Re: Spoiled residents whining over nothing
climate controlled, you are joking i hope. |
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Drex
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join:2000-02-24
La Place, LA
·AT&T Southeast
| Saw one
I saw one of these placed IN someone's backyard. The yard in question doesn't have a fence, so it's in plain sight. Crazy if you ask me. This thing is a huge eye sore and to have one put IN my backyard? I'd be pretty upset.
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qworster
join:2001-11-25
Los Angeles, CA | They are all BANANAS!
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Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything (or Anyone) |
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rody_44
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join:2004-02-20
Quakertown, PA | vaults are nice but
vaults are nice as long as it doesnt rain and you dont have a frost line to deal with. |
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rody_44
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join:2004-02-20
Quakertown, PA
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2 edits | reply to jerryjam
Re: Spoiled residents whining over nothing
please let us in on how you climate control 24"-24" vault. . maybe by putting a central ac unit above it? the climate controlled vaults are usually around a 8 to 10 feet concrete vault. you dont really suggest putting that in front of everyones house do you? |
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jchambers28
join:2007-05-12
Alma, AR | numbers
how many cabinets are there per neighborhood? they need to figure out a way to reduce the number of cabinets per neighborhood 1 would be enough for me and put it some where discretely like in some ones back yard out of sight out of mind. |
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Kearnstd
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Mullica Hill, NJ
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Re: Spoiled residents whining over nothing
Verizon and Comcast should do something on streets that bitch about boxes of any size. dont wire them for ANY advanced services. just provide the basics. the agreements with the towns dont say a street must have full Digital services from Comcast and fios or even DSL from verizon.
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ajtroglio
join:2000-04-20
Saint Louis, MO | cabinets
I'm sure years ago people were complaining about telephone poles and power lines ruining their view. Technology will improve and this too shall pass |
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cornelius785
join:2006-10-26
Worcester, MA
| yeah, but some will be crying, dragging their feet, making a seen, etc. all the way to that day. i'm mostly like, so what? this big new cabinent is probably going provide new great services to me. maybe if the owner of the box gives a heavy discount (like a ~80% discount) to the nearest property owner, i'd shut them most of them up. |
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Rick
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join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT
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| I've heard it all now...
comparing a 1 foot or 2 feet high pedestal that's delivering a real next generation advanced network versus the uverse walk in coolers connecting to this....
»www.corp.att.com/history/other/watson.wmv
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