| [Connectivity] Wondering about building a new house, any experie We're getting ready to build a new house and it never dawned on us, how does getting service work? It's a new development and the houses they've built and sold have insight, but this is an empty lot. Do we have to contact them and have the run cables or what? I believe they are all buried. Never came up and thought someone else might have had some experience.
Also, with the switch to TWC, if a address was previously getting Insight they can for sure still get TWC can't they?
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| Re: [Connectivity] Wondering about building a new house, any exp Do you see a forest greed pedestal near where the other utilities are buried? Does it appear at the property line? If so you should be able to. |
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| Yes, there's a big green box (if that's what you mean) but I thought that was for electrical service. I called Insight today and they checked other addressed in the neighborhood, and they were all fully serviceable.
They said to have the property surveyed, but I forgot to ask if they meant once the house was started or before. I didn't know if they ran the lines during the build or after. |
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 MsradellP.E.Premium
join:2008-12-25
Louisville, KY
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to Crys
If they presently serve the area, including addresses near you, it shouldn't be a problem at all. You should probably contact the developer and/or your builder for the actual location where the cable will be run from. To make things easier in the future and less troublesome, you may want to have a couple of conduits. For both the cable and telephone lines (actually putting the electric lines in conduit is also a good idea). They can pull a replacement line through the conduit without having to tear up your lawn and landscaping. It will also help prevent damage.
If you already thought about pre-wiring, the house for cable and Internet? You should run several coax and multiple CAT 6 cables from any place you could possibly ever want to versions and Internet. Run them all at home runs to a central area where you put in a network cabinet. It's a lot easier now than adding lines in the future. Also running conduit from the candidate to the outside of your home with the NID will be installed. |
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| reply to Crys
I'm in the same boat. My wife and I have purchased a lot in Cambridge subdivision in Evansville, Indiana and it is serviced by Insight, soon to be TWC.
I plan to have cable ran to pretty much every room, maybe a couple of runs to some rooms, as well as a CAT6 drop on every wall of every room, that way I won't need to go too far to reach an ethernet port.
The only drawback I can see is that the cable box appears to be positioned on the far east side of my lot and the room where I will have my network box is on the west side of the house.
Still, I can't wait to get my existing house sold so I can dump Hughesnet in favor of TWC. Regardless of what issues they may have, four years with nothing but satellite Internet or dial-up as options will make anything else seem like Internet Heaven.
- Byron |
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| Have conduit ran in the walls, it will make re-pulling in the future WAY easier if you can use the existing coax line as the fish tape, vs it being nailed down to the framing and having to use glow rods. |
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