"tenplay" wrote in message
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We came back last night from a trip to find our Comcast cable TV and
Internet both not working. I called Comcast tech support, which confirmed
that no signals were getting through to our TV and PC. The Comcast
repairman showed up this morning while I was at work and told my wife that
a rat had chewed through the cable. After replacing the cable, the TV
worked fine but the PC was still not connecting to the Internet. After
about an hour of fiddling with the PC, he told my wife that the Comcast
service is working fine but that there must be a virus in the PC that is
blocking the service and that we needed to have a computer virus
specialist inspect the PC. When I got home, I decided to look over the PC
situation and found that the cable modem was turned off. After pressing
the on/off switch, it worked fine. Could he have been that dumb?

Now I am wondering about the cable being chewed by a rat. We do live in a
semi-rural environment. But I've never seen a rat on our property. What
do I need to do to protect the cable from further damage from rats?

A satellite dish??