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Free cable TV anyone?

And what exactly do you think you would get other than OTA if you plugged in to that "node" (which is actually a tap)?

reply to sleepyshark
Yeah, I was watching a installer work on the pole in my backyard the other day and removed one of the "Locking" caps on the node with a basic open end wrench.

I'm starting to think that their "security" is more based on a few white lies and the hope that people don't like to climb poles
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reply to sleepyshark
Big deal if you make the connection in there. Most likely you won't receive any cable channels. When an install shows up they need to call in to allow the channels to appear.

reply to sleepyshark
Nothing wrong with zip tying innerduct

reply to sleepyshark
The most you would get is basic cable. As long as you used the same coax ends and cable they are using no one would notice. This type of box in this type of shape is VERY common among Comcast installs in this area.

* Note that I am not saying to or not to steal cable.

reply to sleepyshark
You'd probably be enjoying "basic cable" - that's presuming you removed any taps too...
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lol - yeah that's what I meant

reply to sleepyshark
Have you considered someone broke it open? Happens all the time. I'm not sure why you're so quick to blame Comcast. Presumably this part of the building is also secured. There's only so much you can do. We've seen people just snip the coax going into a lockbox and put a splitter in. You get to the point where the cost of preventing theft of service is higher than the theft of service itself.

let's see... this is an *EXTREMELY* secure portion of the building where all the fiber and copper risers run....

The only people who go in this room are cleared with our building's security and since comcast has SUCH as wonderful copper [yet non-redundant] 'last mile' 99.9% of the entries on the security log are comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, at&t, comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, comcast, etc.....

needless to say... the "splicing" of coax comment wouldn't exactly happen in this room (however have see it above ceiling tiles *MANY* times in *MANY* multi-tenant buildings we deal with)
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reply to sleepyshark
Hmm looking at your website...

"Fire IT Guy" post-it... Cute... NOT

"CLEAR LINK'S W.P.B. Datacenter after the 1928 Hurricane???"

Umm what qualifies as a DC in 1928? A phone CO of some kind? Book archives?
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"Umm what qualifies as a DC in 1928?"

A library.

reply to kewlkeed
""Fire IT Guy" post-it... Cute... NOT"

I am not the final, sign on the dotted line person but my opinion of a colo space is a deciding factor on where we will colo. I would not find the "Fire IT Guy" mentality amusing and would easily come up with 10 valid reasons not to colo there.

I saw the 1928 picture and I guess that's what the building looked like in 1928. In my market every data center is located in a building that is at least 50 years old. Our building was built in 1923.

I think they are going for the whole "After the Hurricane our building was still standing" idea, and not that it was a DC in 1928

Thats what I was thinking.