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Originally Posted by Timm
I'm moving into a new apartment soon. It is pre-wired for cable -- there are five "outlets" in four rooms. The Time-Warner guy says that there is an installation fee of about $20/room. My question is, can he actually just turn on the cable to specific outlets? In other words, if I only have him "install" cable in the main sitting room, won't the bedroom outlets also be live? Or does he actually have to connect each of the cables in some box somewhere?
What I'm hoping for is that I can just pay $20 for the one room, and hook up the other rooms myself with some coax cable bought from Radio Shack.
Anyone know how this works?
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My BFF has had a cable and antenna service for decades, and one time when I was unemployed he and I rewired an entire apartment building.
All the outlets are live. The cable installer probably doesn't even have access to the distribution center. (The apartment rewiring guy—my BFF—had access to do the rewiring. He's not a regular installer.)
I'm with the other post suggesting streaming. All you need is Internet access, F the expensive cable or satellite charges. I've got a Roku in my den, Amazon Fire Cube in living room, Amazon Fire Stick in my bedroom.
I will concede that streaming service is not as good quality as standard cable or satellite, but when I want great quality I just play Blu-rays in either of my home theater setups. I mostly watch news anyway, I'm not a network TV fan.
Anyway, worst case, if you plans don't work out you can always call the installer back and have more outlets heated up. I doubt there is a separate service fee above the room charge for an additional trip. But honestly I don't know.
I've seen multi-room satellite setups in my rental houses that were pretty cool. They install the dish and it connects wireless to your satellite boxes. (No drilling holes in my houses!
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