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Great to know... I'm seriously missing DirectTV, so I'll give this a try!
As you were told, that's TW trying to trick you. Cable comes in buried from your street to your junction box, likely by your power meter. DirecTV has zero to do with that. The easy solution is use your existing house wiring for your DirecTV, and then have them run a single line for your cable modem. OR, the even easier thing is that you can trace out one internal line that goes to where you want your cable modem, and just patch that one line into your Time Warner circuit (this is what I have done). As long as things are split up at the wall coming in, you're fine. Now, if your house was wiring with one line going in and it gets split somewhere in the house, it gets a bit trickier but it's totally doable. Most newer homes do NOT do this, most split it up at the entry point.
I had DirecTV 4-5 years ago but decided to go back to TWC due to the fact that is seemed like Direct would go out every time there was a thunderstorm. It also seemed that when it went out it would take a while (15 mins+ or so) to reboot. We just moved into a new house 3 weeks ago and this Friday is the 3rd time TWC is coming out to fix some sort of cable issue. Just wondering if Direct is any better with outages than it used to be 4-5 years ago.
Both garbage - cut the cord, JUST DO IT MAN!
We did it last year and now we get free broadcast TV in high definition over the air, tons of free shows & movies on netflix, and underground streams and torrents for all sports and cable TV shows. You can even get a DVR for over the air stuff.
We did it last year and now we get free broadcast TV in high definition over the air, tons of free shows & movies on netflix, and underground streams and torrents for all sports and cable TV shows. You can even get a DVR for over the air stuff.
This is what freedom feels like
I wonder how long until the different sports leagues/production companies demand stronger compliance on all of the underground streams and torrents as it is a huge infringement on their intellectual property.
As you were told, that's TW trying to trick you. Cable comes in buried from your street to your junction box, likely by your power meter. DirecTV has zero to do with that. The easy solution is use your existing house wiring for your DirecTV, and then have them run a single line for your cable modem. OR, the even easier thing is that you can trace out one internal line that goes to where you want your cable modem, and just patch that one line into your Time Warner circuit (this is what I have done). As long as things are split up at the wall coming in, you're fine. Now, if your house was wiring with one line going in and it gets split somewhere in the house, it gets a bit trickier but it's totally doable. Most newer homes do NOT do this, most split it up at the entry point.
Beat me to it, great response. The last 2 houses I have lived in each had 2 RG6 cables routed from the outside to the central panel in the house which made it easy to have multiple providers. Relatively easy to do it otherwise, but potentially with a cable showing somewhere depending upon where you want your cable modem and the kind of siding you use.
For those without a home run panel, I would assume the wireless DirecTV boxes would make the install much cleaner than just a few years ago.
I wonder how long until the different sports leagues/production companies demand stronger compliance on all of the underground streams and torrents as it is a huge infringement on their intellectual property.
It's a cat and mouse game, as soon as they take down a torrent site, another one springs up. Same for streaming sites. The cable channels though are very lax in their requests for copyright violations. They seem happy to have their content widely circulated on the internet to people who don't have cable because they would never see their shows otherwise.
I think though that the internet downloading will eventually reach a critical tipping point where rights holders will get militant on enforcement, including going after individuals by monitoring their day to day ISP activity like they did in the past. IMO that will put a big dent in things when it gets to it but determined people will always find a way around it.
Beat me to it, great response. The last 2 houses I have lived in each had 2 RG6 cables routed from the outside to the central panel in the house which made it easy to have multiple providers. Relatively easy to do it otherwise, but potentially with a cable showing somewhere depending upon where you want your cable modem and the kind of siding you use.
For those without a home run panel, I would assume the wireless DirecTV boxes would make the install much cleaner than just a few years ago.
Is there a rental fee for those Direct TV boxes or do they provide them for free. Their website is very confusing to me.
They seem happy to have their content widely circulated on the internet to people who don't have cable because they would never see their shows otherwise.
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