Poll of the Day > Muah, who needs IT or comcast customer service?

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Been wanting to move where my wifi/network/router was for awhile, but in the past evil Comcast always said "You need to have a customer service agent come to your house and change the port", or something like that.

Being a gullible idiot, I believed them.

Anyway, I decided to just do the work myself today, changed the hard lines around from one location to another so it was the same wires (not really that hard) and BAM, I now have the modem set up in my room instead of my living room.

Advantage there is there is a short range much faster line, that barely reached into my room so would drop out sometimes (very annoying), or I have a longer range that literally makes it to my neighbors house down the block (bottom of a big hill!). I found out during an HoA meeting when my ipad that I had brought with me was still connected lol.

This way I have the high speed and no need to have the long cord going all the way around my living room to my bedroom (and it means I can set up the TV in the living room as well easily). So much better. Should have bucked the system and done it myself along time ago.

So, moral of this story is, don't listen to the MAN!!! Down with the establishment!! Rise up, rise up and seize the day. Praise the sun.

Wolfy out.

Drops mic.
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is it just a coaxial cable that connects to the modem
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wolfy42 posted...

Been wanting to move where my wifi/network/router was for awhile, but in the past evil Comcast always said "You need to have a customer service agent come to your house and change the port", or something like that.

lmaoooooooooooooo classic example of blind leading the blind, but you ended up finding a way out anyway
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I tried in the past just moving it and it wouldn't work, they tried doing a reset and then said it needed someone to actually come out (which they charge for). I got it all set up that way (by actually signing up for the protection plan thingy for 3 months ($5 a month) and then canceling...instead of paying $40 or something like that.

This time, the living room is right in front of the bedroom and the two cables both come up right between them, so I just switched them around (living to bedroom and vice versa) and it works fine). I did not try just plugging it in to the bedroom since that didn't work before, but who knows maybe it would.

It is their own modem btw, which they at least seam to need to program for it to work (as it didn't work either time I have set it up till they did something on their end).

I circumvented that by using the exact same cable it was set up for, just changing where it came out.

Maybe I could have avoided that step, but whatever, it's done now....and no need to deal with them.
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