Comcast strikes again - bad internet cable wiring
piscesgirl
16 years ago
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Comments (9)First off I would like to thank Mike lehua for your replies and sharing your knowledge. I turned on each zone manually and all the heads and zones worked and pressure was normal for all zones. Then I cut off all the wire/grease caps, in the valve box and restripped and reconnected every wire, using new waterproof wire nuts. I then took the OLD (supposedly fried) timer and reconnected it. The sprinkler system works perfectly and after reprogramming the timer, it works perfectly as well. The good news is that you guys saved me a ton of money, all I really had to buy were wire nuts, and my system is working again. I am very grateful for your help. The bad news is that I have to decide what to do about the guy that came to fix my system. He didn't give me any impression that he was coming to estimate and not fix. When he got here he was wearing dressy clothes and shoes, surely not something you would expect if a guy is gonna crawl around by a valve box. He told me that the timer was fried after looking at it for 10 seconds. He said it was so fried he couldn't remove the fuse. He then shot me an email estimate from his ipad, which he had in his vehicle. The estimate was for $300, which was for a new timer and the labor to install it. He said that if there were wire problems, valve problems, pvc problems, etc. the price would go up accordingly. That was when I started to read and talk to you guys. When I took the timer off the wall, not only was the fuse easy to remove, it was not burned out. There was power getting to the timer and all stored data was still visible. The Tech/Owner that told me the unit was fried certainly couldn't have missed that. So, if I was to have believed him, it would have cost me $300, plus whatever else he felt he needed/wanted to add to the bill. The only problem was clearly a connection. The funny thing is that I went through a service similar to "Angie's List" to find him. The reviews on the site were raving as to how great the company is....I am confused. I can just imagine how many old widows/widowers are overpaying through the nose, overpaying for things in situations similar to mine. In closing, I think you guys were not only correct about the connections, but also about the common ground being the one. All the connections I removed looked perfect, except for the common wire connect to the batch of wires coming from each valve. The wire coating looked dark, not white, and even the wiring looked a bit odd. I stripped the common a bit further down and it looked clean, so I reconnected. Thanks Agin!!!! Rick...See MoreI hate Comcast , I hate Comcast, I hate Comcast.
Comments (16)I am canceling my service with Comcast. I have the $4.99 charge to cover me in case I need to have a service call. Well in April I did have a service call as one of my two phone lines was not working. The technician who came out broke my phone and did not tell me that he broke it. I found that out much later -- it should have been a hint when he did not want me to hold the phone. Then he or Comcast put a $70.00 charge on my account. When I called Comcast, I told them about this, they admitted that it should not have been there and they told me that they would credit my account on the next bill, but that I was expected to pay it and they would issue a credit. I need to check the statutes but I don't think you can collect on disputed charges, especially when you are aware that YOU made the mistake. For the $70.00 that should not have been billed, they interrupted the service. I refuse to pay it and have notified my local jurisdiction and the FCC. If you are looking for a cable or internet or phone provider, don't walk past Comcast, run as fast and as far as you can....See Moreold house cable wire fishing
Comments (7)> where does the second output from the current splitter go? That is a fascinating question. Thanks for asking, prompting me to take a look. There are three outs. - One of them them goes upstairs to the shark fin cable modem in my office. - One was a wire to nowhere, likely for when the previous owners had a TV on the first floor, which we do not. - One is a mystery. It goes to a black modem marked Touchstone Telephony Modem (Arris). There don't seem to be any wires coming out of this, and I'm not exactly sure what it is. My guess is that a couple years ago, we briefly signed up for a package cable modem/telephone service, but the quality was so bad that we canceled it after a couple weeks. I wonder if we got a free modem when we signed up for that, and they never removed it? It remains plugged in, ready for action. I'm tempted to unplug it to confirm that it doesn't affect my Internet service. So, the service from outside should not go to a splitter, it should just connect to the cable that goes up the chase to my office, right? As in, I really just need a simple connector/coupler, not a splitter. Upstairs, the current cable terminates in a wall outlet with one connection for the coaxial cable and two for Ethernet ports (only one of which I use). Does a wall unit exist that is also a splitter? Basically, a coaxial out in the back? Or do I cut the cable before it gets to this wall outlet, and split it to the attic bedroom? And again, planning for the future, should I just use the old basement splitter, which will have an extra Out for the day I decide to fish another wire to the 2nd floor TV room? So, the attic splitter would be: - In from the street (actually two coupled cables) - 1 Out to the cable modem - 1 Out to the attic TV - 1 Out open, for future routing to the 2nd floor TV room Thanks so much, --Jonathan...See MoreAny satisfied Comcast users????
Comments (11)I have their broadband because they are the only company offering it. Every other company is only available in town, so it is dial up or comcast. When they first came out to our area with tv cable we decided to try it. We had bought 2 HDTV's and they supposedly had the best in HDTV. We just had comcast taken out on Monday and will never go back again. It's terrible for HDTV, they added advertisements on the DVR's guide menu so when you think you are changing the channel you are going to the ads. 20 minutes after the hour they cut off Headline news, and run some local interview show every morning for about 15 minutes. Every hour they do that until afternoon! The cable locks up and you can't change channels or channel surf easily. When it finally does change the channel is goes through about 7 channels before it stops. As my DH says "not very user friendsly" The DVR " static snapped" and made humming noises we could hear all over the house; all of which they said was normal. We have three adult kids who have comcast and each of them is shutting it off in their towns as well. Same problems. Since we went back to DTV we haven't had a single problem like we were having with comcast.....See Morebus_driver
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