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[Dave McGuire]

On December 4, Fogg, James wrote:
> maybe you are over-engineering the discussion with the cable company. I have
> been in some situations like this ("sorry, we can't do it that way"). I
> suspect that if you built a shed-sized building at the bottom of the drive
> and called the cableco and asked for an install, nobody would catch on.
> Don't tell anyone about the details. The installer may scratch his head, but
> should do the install. I even got phone service to a travel trailer in
> Florida that way.
> 
> I had the cableco in my town go balistic when I asked about broadband
> routers and a static IP. I shut my mouth and had my wife call up a week
> later and act like nothing was strange. I even had them bother to run the
> cable to my wife's PC. When I got home that night I cut the cable in the
> cellar, moved the cable modem and installed my router. Fork 'em.

  The less you tell 'em, the less they'll complain about or be
confused by.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL