On 8/18/2012 4:40 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 16:09:16 -0400, "Ralph Mowery"
wrote:


A friend of mine has a house about 1500 feet off the road. The cable line
runs right by the main road.. He had to pay about 2 to 4 thousand to get
the cable internet to his house. In his case it was necessary as he did a
lot of internet work and his wife has a business doing things over the
internet such as designing web pages. They were able to use it as a
business expense.



That cost was common a few years back. Our local cable company had a
200' limit for free, then it was $x per foot. With competition from
DSL and SAT TV, they started doing some free hookups.


Comcast does it by estimating construction cost. They will eat the first
so many dollars per installation.