Post this same picture and story is boring. Do not like it go with dish It is that simple.

"resked" ? That is a particularly ugly excuse for a word.

Overall, I'm tickled pink after living in AT&T DSL he|| for years. That aint getting any better, so as long as Comcast is at least as reliable I'll be happy.

Now I can even make phone calls on my Obi110 box without having to kill my scanner feeds to avoid uplink bandwidth starvation. How cool is that?! Yes, that's how bad it was :- )

...With Comcast, each franchise area has a great deal of autonomy in what products are marketed and how certain services are provided.

The 2-drop 2-modem rule may have been for Business class and not residential. I never said i knew 100% what the comcast policy was, but still you CANNOT share a single RG6 drop between 2 residential dwellings (individual addresses). If the OP replies, maybe we can figure out WHY the installer cannot run another RG6 Quad drop..

Depends on market then... In Jacksonville, FL they will only allow the two modem, two account setup with individual drops and tags unless there is not an extra port on the tap, then I don't know what they do.

so when a customer has two modems in a house (phone/hsi) you need to dual drop?!?!?!

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Even Comcast under their policy does not allow 2 modems to be connected via the same drop

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...This is most likely a case of a lazy tech.

I edited my post previous to kinda make more sense out of it. I'm not sure what happened on my phone but I thought I shortened the quote the first time. Anyway, all of your post was correct and I was saying that there is not an excuse for not running the drop.

A tech came out to install cable in my half of the duplex apartment where I live. The other half of this duplex got Comcast a few months ago. It is served from a pole about 50 feet from the building and I assume that a new drop was run from the pole to his (closer) apartment eaves, then through his wall.

The tech today looked puzzled about how to run the cable drop to me and indicated that he could just split it at my neighbor's service entry point and then run it another 40 feet along the eaves to my half of the duplex.

I thought each customer drop needed to be a separate cable? If not, what problems can arise from sharing the drop from the pole?

My guess is that I might have half the signal I would otherwise get, but whether or not that would cause trouble I don't know yet. We rescheduled for tomorrow for a number of reasons, so I'd like to be prepared for his return.

Any gotchas to watch out for or ask him about?

Thanks.

Even Comcast under their policy does not allow 2 modems to be connected via the same drop. Again maybe there is lee-way, but even a Comcast authorized contractor states: "If you have two modems, they must have separate connections to the main line tap plate. They can not both exists on the same RG6 coax building drop."

I live in an apartment complex. Each building has eight apartments. There is only one power drop and one Comcast cable drop for each building. The power and cable is fed from a common junction box (with separate power meters for each apartment) to each apartment. I don't see why a duplex would require any different treatment.

I have NEVER seen this...period... Although i never worked for Comcast thank the lord, I worked for another Cable company in my area. Under NO circumstances were we EVER to share a drop on a duplex. (If this is NOT how comcast does it, then i guess you are SoL and must share)
Not understanding why he could not get the drop to your side. Our rule was 99% of the time, the RG6Q drop is supposed to follow your power drop. IF it is a true duplex with 2 addresses? , you should have 2 power drops and 2 meters etc.
What happens when the neighbor dumps his connection?
Something just sounds wrong, but maybe that is just comcast....

...What happens when the neighbor dumps his connection?