I think I found my new home!

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Approximately $1.50 to the £ so that works out at about £87 which is close to what I'm paying for Internet, TV and Phone.

Pretty much the same.

Yeah, except for me that's just what I'm paying for TV, not the whole kielbasa.

But let me just say that Jerome from Time Warner is AWESOME. He got here right before noon, looked at the two cable boxes already attached to the condo, and said he had no idea what it was the guy yesterday couldn't find because obviously that's where the lines go into the condo.

So then he said he remembered working out here before and that the whole setup regarding how the lines were run just never seemed right to him and "condos are always fishy." He tracked my cables to where they were hooked up to the main line and checked the signal and said it was crappy because the cables were so old and probably hadn't been serviced since the 90s which was the date he found on the tags on some of them.

He also couldn't figure out why mine were running to a box way around the corner and down a hill and whatnot when there was another box right across the yard. So he calls his "underground guys" and tells them he needs them here ASAP to hook me up to the box across the yard. Then he did all the interior work and put the lines down outside so all the underground guys have to do is come run the little slit through the yard and bury the cables. They got here before he left so he was able to show them exactly what needed to be done.

In the meantime he also called his dispatcher and told her he was getting me hooked up and needed one of the techs to come out and bring my new cable boxes and get those set up and get the whole house DVR thing working. That guy will be here between three and four today.

He said when that guy gets here, if he has any problems, tell him the tap box is the one straight across the yard behind that bush. If he still can't figure it out, I can call him and he'll explain it to the other installer himself.

Can't get a line run to the bedroom today, unfortunately, since that's gonna be more complicated and this is already complicated enough. But at least I'll have working cable into the condo. Jerome said there was an old splitter on the line running into the room directly under the bedroom, like maybe there was a line running up the wall to the upstairs at one point... but there's no jacks up there so it's a mystery. The wall doesn't look patched either where a jack was taken out so maybe someone intended to run a line but just never did.