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Posted by Bob on August 11, 2006, 11:24 am
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installed an individual drop for each line over the years. A verry
messy setup with 5 lines to my home...I ran a home business at the
time. I asked them to run one 6 pair drop, the wouldn't do it. The one
day, a tree limb 'fell' on the drops and broke them all! When they
came out to repair I suggested that it might be easier for the tech to
install a single multi pair drop. He said that was a great idea and
did just that!
Agent_C wrote:
> wrote:
>
> >Is that the *best* advice you could come up with? Intentionally
> >destroying their equipment doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
>
> It's not entirely unprecedented and I would hardly describe it as
> 'destroying their equipment'.
>
> When I moved into my apartment 16 years ago, I was getting poor TV
> reception due to RF leakage. No matter how many times I had the
> servicemen out, nothing improved. Finally, I got fed up one day and
> ripped out all the cable from my apartment, down the hall, all the way
> to the utility closet. I snipped the cable just outside the box.
>
> There were multiple splices in the line and the insulation was brittle
> and cracked easily. It was obvious where the RF leakage was coming
> from, but the Time Warner monkeys had apparently never bothered to
> check the condition of the cable closely.
>
> I called up and insisted they come out and replace it with a single,
> splice free stretch of cable. They did and I've gotten *pristine*
> reception ever since.
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