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No cable to house

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Burner27

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I just bought a house. YAY! There is no cable running to my home. BOO!!! It was built in 2001 and phone and power lines were buried. I have 3 orange PVC-like pipes running from the pole at street to basement (previous owner who built house ran these for 'future needs (i.e.- power telephone-cable)). Looking at wires on the pole already, there is no cable line or 'tap' as the installer put it going to my pole. He suggested the next pole over (about 100' away) that does have the cable 'tap' on it should have a hard line run to my house underground. Problem is there is an easement which i do not own that would prevent any digging.

Wouldn't it be easier for the cable company to just extend the cable service that is provided to everyone else's homes on the block that comes via a wire strung between the poles to my pole which is at the end of my driveway ~150' away from my house and use the 'orange PVC-like pipes' to run a cable through?

Is that an option?
 
In reality, your option is whatever the cable company says your option is. Anything beyond that, they will likely quote you and present a bill for. I received a quote for $35,000 to install Comcast at this building for example...

PS an easement is not your problem, most likely the cable co will have access to the easements. You will not be doing the work, they would be and as such they would take care of all the permits and easement access. You can suggest they use your poll but if the installer said there is no tap, there is no tap and they would likely need to install one to use your poll. They may charge you for this if they feel they can run a line and bury it.
 
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250' is going to be a hell of a run for RG-6, you'll be running on fumes by the time it gets to you...might want to see if they could go RG-11 from tap to your pole, to your house. Try calling up and asking for Engineering, see if you could have someone higher up than an installer come out to look into it for you 😉

They won't want to put a new tap in for you, that's for sure. Is there rope in the 3 pipes?
 
Rope is in one pipe but i can run one in any of the pipes with ease.

I spoke to a tech yesterday who is going to come and make a 'site survey' and he suggested RG-11 as well. He said he would rather go 'aerial' rather than dig. He said they would extend the cable from the pole that has cable to the one in front of my house. It is 163' from pole at street in front of my house to the end of the PVC-like pipe in my basement. Give or take a few feet.

But he didn't want to commit to anything until he saw the current setup.
 
I was lucky. No tap near my house either. TWC plugged me into a trunk line on the pole and ran RG11 underground to the house about 125 feet. I get really great speeds BTW.
 
Hehe--gotta love that.

Well the tech came out to my house and said he would have the trunk line that ends at the pole 100' from the pole in front of my house extended and then run RG-11 to my home. He said it would take a couple of days to make happen.

No charge to me = FTW
 
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Burner27 said:
Hehe--gotta love that.

Well the tech came out to my house and said he would have the trunk line that ends at the pole 100' from the pole in front of my house extended and then run RG-11 to my home. He said it would take a couple of days to make happen.

No charge to me = FTW
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Cool, sounds like you got lucky and they have a "required to provide service to all residence" clause in their municipality contract. Otherwise they would happily bill out the butt for it.
 
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