Free cable TV anyone? in Photos of Broadband gear http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21634089 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:58:06 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:58:06 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21794051 Silentwolf : Thats what I was thinking.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21794051 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:20:57 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793867 MaxCras : 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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793867 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:46:39 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793812 battleop : ""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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793812 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:36:07 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793716 battleop : "Umm what qualifies as a DC in 1928?"

A library.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21793716 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:22:02 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21792689 kewlkeed : 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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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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(561)253-6500]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21790857 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:47:48 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21790817 jsz0 : 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. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21790817 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:40:43 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21666343 pstewart : lol - yeah that's what I meant ;)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21666343 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:35:46 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21666325 CanerisErik :
said by pstewart See Profile :

You'd probably be enjoying "basic cable" - that's presuming you removed any taps too...
"taps" = traps?
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* Note that I am not saying to or not to steal cable. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21644357 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:09:04 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21642152 jmich : Nothing wrong with zip tying innerduct]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21642152 Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:25:07 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21639961 jjgb10 :
said by wirphotos See Profile :

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.
That's only for digital cable. Most cable systems still have analog channels and if you did plug into that and plugged in a tv with a tuner, you would pick up ALL of their analog channels.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21639961 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:26:03 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21639766 wirphotos : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21639766 Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:35:42 EDT Re: Free cable TV anyone? http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21635498 CanerisErik :
said by MaxCras See Profile :

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 :D
Which isn't specific to them, nor to cable. POTS OSP is the same. You can open everything with a can wrench, unless you're staring at some "smart" CLEC's plant, where they lock the crap out of everything...then take three days to get the right tech dispatched so he can open the box and do a 10 minute repair job :uhh:
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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 :D
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low and behold on the 8th floor where we were feeding some new innerduct, we come across the "highly secure" cable node from comcast....

can we say 'free cable anyone?'.... comcast at their best ;-)

BTW: don't yell at my about the innerduct being zip tied... this was mid-project and the damn innerduct kept sliding around, so i just zip tied the damn thing until we mounted it correctly...
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