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fatlazyless · 03-19-2019, 04:38 PM

Consolidated Communications does internet, and will replace the line from the road to your house with cat-5 wire, so it works with no glitches.

Even on my 60" x 120" el cheapo, big screen tv, the you tube tv streams with no loss of definition with their cheapest 20m-sbd service.

Outdoorsman · 03-19-2019, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Consolidated Communications does internet, and will replace the line from the road to your house with cat-5 wire, so it works with no glitches.

Even on my 60" x 120" el cheapo, big screen tv, the you tube tv streams with no loss of definition with their cheapest 20m-sbd service.

Cat-5 has been outdated for years. Demand your money back.

If they are running Cat-5 network cable from the road to your house, Demand your money back.

I would demand that refund even if they did it for FREE!

Top-Water · 03-19-2019, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Outdoorsman

I would demand that refund even if they did it for FREE!

He does not need it back, ah, sigh,......... the ultra wealthy, wish I had a 5 foot by 10 foot screen.

MAXUM · 03-19-2019, 05:47 PM

It's a massive upgrade from the string and two Dixie cups it replaced.

Rusty · 03-19-2019, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Outdoorsman

Cat-5 has been outdated for years. Demand your money back.

If they are running Cat-5 network cable from the road to your house, Demand your money back.

I would demand that refund even if they did it for FREE!

Consolidated Communications only has DSL that runs off your telephone line which is twisted copper wires.

fatlazyless · 03-20-2019, 04:52 AM

Yes .... well ..... you know the large modem, about the size of a shoe box, that comes with the Consolidated least expensive, monthly service, has no problem streaming the You Tube TV, and will transmit through the cottage wall/windows, and out across the frozen lake, to my Acer 15" $179 lap top set up on a $2.85 5-gal white ice-fish'n bucket with no loss of detail.

Am out here on the ice right now, screened behind the bucket, watching three deer on the shoreline, scrounge the dry crusty snow for left-over bird seed dropped from the overhead bird feeder by a sloppy black capped chick-a-dee.

BroadHopper · 03-20-2019, 08:28 AM

Cat 5, Cat 5e, cat 6 etc. House was built wired at Cat 5 in every room of the house except the bathrooms. Metrocast and AB will install Cat 5e from the modem to the TV or PC only outside the wall. Its up to the owners to upgrade the wires in the house. I choose to use PLNA (Power line network adaptors) to provide internet service to other rooms. Works better for me than wireless.

Same as coax cable, Cables need to be upgraded to RG6, also the responsibility of the home owner, Also the cable need to run from one splitter to each room as oppose to running in series to each room. AB and Metrocast will only install RG6 outside the walls. The HOA is dead set against this practice, that is why I have poor internet service until I replace the cable from the box outside the unit to the modem. Not an easy task to replace cable wires.

What is odd is that in Rochester, instead of using existing AB/Metrocast wires, new Comcast subscribers get all new cable to and into the house and new modems cables and CAT 6 wires to the TV, PCs etc. They leave the old wires there, and run the new parallel to the old. Can't seem to see the justification.

FLL can make some money removing the old wires and sell to scrap dealers!

What's next?

03-19-2019, 04:38 PM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,804 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	Consolidated Communications does internet, and will replace the line from the road to your house with cat-5 wire, so it works with no glitches. Even on my 60" x 120" el cheapo, big screen tv, the you tube tv streams with no loss of definition with their cheapest 20m-sbd service. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

03-20-2019, 04:52 AM	#6
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,804 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,026 Times in 746 Posts	Yes .... well ..... you know the large modem, about the size of a shoe box, that comes with the Consolidated least expensive, monthly service, has no problem streaming the You Tube TV, and will transmit through the cottage wall/windows, and out across the frozen lake, to my Acer 15" $179 lap top set up on a $2.85 5-gal white ice-fish'n bucket with no loss of detail. Am out here on the ice right now, screened behind the bucket, watching three deer on the shoreline, scrounge the dry crusty snow for left-over bird seed dropped from the overhead bird feeder by a sloppy black capped chick-a-dee. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

03-20-2019, 08:28 AM	#7
BroadHopper Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Laconia NH Posts: 5,594 Thanks: 3,236 Thanked 1,111 Times in 798 Posts	Cable Cat 5, Cat 5e, cat 6 etc. House was built wired at Cat 5 in every room of the house except the bathrooms. Metrocast and AB will install Cat 5e from the modem to the TV or PC only outside the wall. Its up to the owners to upgrade the wires in the house. I choose to use PLNA (Power line network adaptors) to provide internet service to other rooms. Works better for me than wireless. Same as coax cable, Cables need to be upgraded to RG6, also the responsibility of the home owner, Also the cable need to run from one splitter to each room as oppose to running in series to each room. AB and Metrocast will only install RG6 outside the walls. The HOA is dead set against this practice, that is why I have poor internet service until I replace the cable from the box outside the unit to the modem. Not an easy task to replace cable wires. What is odd is that in Rochester, instead of using existing AB/Metrocast wires, new Comcast subscribers get all new cable to and into the house and new modems cables and CAT 6 wires to the TV, PCs etc. They leave the old wires there, and run the new parallel to the old. Can't seem to see the justification. FLL can make some money removing the old wires and sell to scrap dealers! What's next? __________________ Someday may never be an actual day.

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MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 246 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	It's a massive upgrade from the string and two Dixie cups it replaced.

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