On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 20:38:30 -0500, micky
wrote:

On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:57:40 -0800, "Sasquatch Jones"
wrote:

I wonder if someone who has had cable internet installed in a house that has never had cable could give me some idea of what is typically installed inside the house?

I actually don't meet your critieria, but...

I would like Time Warner Cable to install the box and whatever else is needed on the outside and run the cable(s) into an attic vent and stop there.

They'll be happy to stop. The harder part is getting them to go as far
as you want.

And for your own sake, it would be best if you have finished what you
plan to do before they get there. So you can test the TW input. Even
if they made a mistake, if you don't let them test or test yourself
before they leave, I can envision a charge for a service call to come
out another time and find even their own mistake. At least such a
charge woudl be fair, even if they don't do it.

As to Time Warner I have no experience with them, but I'll bet it
depends on what city youre in or even what part of town, or even which
guy you get. IIRC, 15 years ago, the same company that provides cable in
Baltimore would not provide cable to the room my brother in Dallas
wanted. He had no basement and no floor in most of the attic, and they
wouldn't go under the driveway, and going around back had lots of
obstacles, and last I saw the cable, it was running down the hall, under
a rug, from where they put it to where he wanted it. When I called
the same company in Baltimore, they said they'd put in whatever room the
customer picked.

Do the cable lines come in through the ground, or from the top of a
telephone pole? If the ground, I'm surpised you'd be willing to let
tw run the cable up the side of your house, rather than do that
yourself**. Some places and/or some guys do things just right. better
than I could do, but other times it's the opposite. I don't know
about inside vs. outside quality, if it is different, but much cable
comes in 10 colors. and can be stuffed in the corner next to the
downspout (is that bad for transmission? I don't think so. )

**You might even want to install electricity in your attic (or run an
extension cord??) , for the cable box, and so forth, or some other
method to get the cable from the attic to electricity


I'll take care of it from there on. So I would like to know what is typically installed inside besides the cable modem. TWC cust service says another "box" but could not tell me what that box was.

IIUC, it's Pandora's Box.

I don't want to wait until the installer comes out.

Oh, good. Ignore some of the text above.

I'll be getting broadband internet and one phone line. The internet cable will be new, going to an office, so that should be straightforward.

The phone is in the other end of the house. I wonder if TWC can connect to the existing phone wiring outside or if they will need to run a separate new cable to the phone?

Thanks!

SJ

I think I've got the best "installer hell" story.
When I worked in Livingston Zambia, the wait for a land line was over
a year. A friend finally "won the lottery" and his chance to have a
phone installed came. He was working so he left the key for the side
entrance for the installer to get in. When he came home he could not
get in the front door because the phone wire was tacked to the front
door frame and run through the skeleton key hole in the latch....I
guess the installer from the post office (operators of the phone
system) figured they only used the side door since that's the key he
was given.

We pulled the wire out and made a hole through the concrete wall to
run it through.