[COLUG] AT&T and other Internet/TV providers

[Olaf Stein]

Thanks Mark and the rest of you.
It seems like staying with TW, as I want to be able to add a TV without 
the cable box

Olaf



Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 15:18 -0400, Olaf Stein wrote:
>
>   
>> 2) How does AT&T wire the inside, is it Coax like the cable companies do?
>> I am asking this because it is nice that you can add more TV's to your 
>> house at no cost without a receiver if you split the coax cable and can 
>> live with no digital tv on those tv's
>>     
>
> A friend of mine has the AT&T Uverse service.  The signals come in to
> his house over his existing phone line and go to a modem which was
> installed near his main TV. There is a CAT5 cable that runs to the
> "cable box" which is connected to his TV (via coax). From that cable
> box, coax runs to the other TVs. I'm not sure, but I think there is a
> cable box at the other TVs.
>
> The modem also serves as a router with 4 ports and a wireless internet
> access point and they supplied him with a USB wireless receiver for his
> computer.  However, even though the receiver was no more than 30-40 feet
> away (through a couple of walls), the signal at the computer was
> marginal. We ran a CAT5 cable from the modem to his computer and got rid
> of the wireless.
>
> I don't know how the phone is connected.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Mark
>
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