Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Bo Holt
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Thu Sep 17 2026 08:23 am

-=> Bo Holt wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

 BH> That wwas back when people still cared enough to do a decent job, too.
 BH> The last time (MANY years ago) I needed a cable jack installed in a new
 BH> house I was buying, all they did was run coax through the wall aand
 BH> stick a faceplate over it to LOOK like they did it correctly... smh...

Yeah, Comcast installers were the worst - one of them wanted to throw
the cable over my tile roof, run along a flat tar roof unanchored and
drill a hole in the roof to drop it down. I flat out refused. They sent
someone else out to do the work a couple of days later and the first
installer came by to trash talk me to the second one outside of my own
house.

Now, I have a local cable installer - he's great and cheap, ran all new
cable when we got cable internet, and he ran Cat6 from my downstairs
router to my office, terminated both in outlet boxes with keystone
jacks, and rid me of a couple of janky powerline boxes I had been using.

(Powerline is great if you're all on one breaker box. Unfortunately, the
router and my office are on different breaker boxes and they'd lose
connection every week or so...)




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