How do I get Comcast through my envelope prior to blower door test?
In anticipation of a blower door test, water, sewer, electricity, and gas were run to house with one phone call each. Can anyone suggest a way to convince Comcast to provide a stub-out to new construction with studs not yet covered?
Three weeks and half a dozen phone calls (each one requiring a half hour just to get to someone who could look at the job ticket) I usually get: “T.V. has to be ready to hook up before we can install service.” Why, I ask, can you not bring the cable to a utility box and test the signal there? Yesterday I learned this:
“The T.V. is required to test the radio signal, to make sure it is strong enough. Technicians cannot test the signal strength without a t.v. Also, if the cable just terminated in a utility box, it would leak radio signals and interfere with air traffic.”
Any ideas on how to proceed? Also, how does one respond to an assertion like radio waves leaking out all over the place? Reminds me of the James Thurber cartoon attached.
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在我的房子上，我雇用了一个家庭自动化人员来安装电话线和以太网电缆。他还为有线服务运行了同轴电缆。他的工作包括为手机和电缆提供外部连接点。
史蒂夫，
我在爬行空间上建造的最后两所房屋，我只是跑了1英寸的管道，直至所有房间的盒子，随着技术的变化，随着无线设备的扩散，我想知道这是否会被视为一个，这是否会被视为一个过时的方法很快？
Malcolm,
That is a valid point. Fewer people are paying for landlines and instead opting for cells as their main number. Wifi (especially with a mesh network) is pretty reliable for internet service. And streaming is getting better all the time. I might not worry about structured wiring if building in 2017. But I would put in phone lines. Conference calls on a cell are a pain.
I'm trying to get the cable laid underground from house to connection, with the house part inside the envelope. Cable should go in before hardscape, like all other utilities. Comcast does not seem to have the capacity to do this, nor can they acknowledge that they are a utility.
So far: local government and small business = great service; mega-monopoly Comcast = frustration and futility.
David,
在电缆掉落和房屋之间安装2英寸的PVC电气导管。在导管中包括强麻线的长度。房子完成后，Comcast技术人员可以为您的服务连接拉上同轴电缆。PVC还将保护同轴电缆免受损害。
David,
当您遇到这样的问题时，经常退后一步，看看周围的建筑商是否经历了同一件事，或者是否可能源于对过程通常如何发生的误解
I've never heard of the utilities or media companies being responsible for arranging access to the residence. They just run wire. If it is above ground they run their service from their pole to your mastheads. If it is underground the builder supplies two conduits, During construction the ends get capped at the house until they are required. The cable and phone companies are just expected to bring wire to the residence, not arrange anything else.