Meh, it's the only way I've ever seen it done.
Now, that is not to say that you can't just buy a splitter and feed it another TV. We do it all the time. In my parents house we only had 2 activated cable jacks but we had 5 TVs that all ran cable.
I have a question.
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Meh, it's the only way I've ever seen it done.
Now, that is not to say that you can't just buy a splitter and feed it another TV. We do it all the time. In my parents house we only had 2 activated cable jacks but we had 5 TVs that all ran cable.
@Robert
BT here have got in trouble for something like that - because they are contracted to own and maintain the phone lines, they have direct control from their HQ of the entire network in the country, and it was 'suggested' (ie, ruled but out-of-court) that they were using this unfair advantage to damage competition, monitoring customers line usage, lines being activated and deactivated at certain addresses, etc. that other companies didn't have the ability to 'see'.
BT here have got in trouble for something like that - because they are contracted to own and maintain the phone lines, they have direct control from their HQ of the entire network in the country, and it was 'suggested' (ie, ruled but out-of-court) that they were using this unfair advantage to damage competition, monitoring customers line usage, lines being activated and deactivated at certain addresses, etc. that other companies didn't have the ability to 'see'.
In the time period I'm talking about, there was no one but AT&T. They were a monopoly.
I (By I, I mean my parents 
) pay £30 a month for Telephone, Internet and Television. We use Sky, Pretty good but I think its only a UK thing?
) pay £30 a month for Telephone, Internet and Television. We use Sky, Pretty good but I think its only a UK thing?
Yeah, BT used to be that too, for many many years. Hence, they still hold most of their old control over the actual physical network.
Surpreme Admiral,
Your internet portion of your bill shouldn't be $137. We don't have bandwidth caps nor do we charge any "overages" for DSL. Something is wrong if that is just for internet and not phone and TV. If you would like for me to check it out, send me an email: Embarq_Joey@embarq.com.
You can check out my Twitter page to verify my identity: http://twitter.com/EMBARQ_Joey.
Thanks,
Joey H.
EMBARQ Customer Outreach
reachout@embarq.com
Your internet portion of your bill shouldn't be $137. We don't have bandwidth caps nor do we charge any "overages" for DSL. Something is wrong if that is just for internet and not phone and TV. If you would like for me to check it out, send me an email: Embarq_Joey@embarq.com.
You can check out my Twitter page to verify my identity: http://twitter.com/EMBARQ_Joey.
Thanks,
Joey H.
EMBARQ Customer Outreach
reachout@embarq.com
^ Damn, how come customer service people don't show up here when I bitch about stuff?
Anyway, Supreme Admiral, in my experience, grandmothers don't know anything about electronics, but they act as if they're experts. I mean, how many posters here had grandmas that wouldn't let them hook up their Nintendo because "It'll mess up my TV." The best thing to do is just say things like "Yes, grandma," "You're right, grandma," and "I will, grandma," every few seconds without actually paying attention. Actually, that's a good thing to do every time they talk.
Although, all my grandparents are dead, so this isn't something I have to deal with. Well, I have an aunt that sometimes likes to bitch about things to me that are none of her business, but I just tell her to shut the fuck up and she does. Sometimes she complains to my dad about it, but he doesn't say anything to me because most of the time he wants to tell her to shut the fuck up as well.
Anyway, Supreme Admiral, in my experience, grandmothers don't know anything about electronics, but they act as if they're experts. I mean, how many posters here had grandmas that wouldn't let them hook up their Nintendo because "It'll mess up my TV." The best thing to do is just say things like "Yes, grandma," "You're right, grandma," and "I will, grandma," every few seconds without actually paying attention. Actually, that's a good thing to do every time they talk.
Although, all my grandparents are dead, so this isn't something I have to deal with. Well, I have an aunt that sometimes likes to bitch about things to me that are none of her business, but I just tell her to shut the fuck up and she does. Sometimes she complains to my dad about it, but he doesn't say anything to me because most of the time he wants to tell her to shut the fuck up as well.
Is everybody here on Prodigy or AOL? I pay $US30 a month. I don't know if I have a bandwidth limit, but I download stuff all day and I've never had to pay more. I'm on Cable which is only moderately fast, but still. $137 for a one month's Internet bill? Somebody is ripping you off big time.
Totally misread that. Nevermind.
I have to agree. I pay $60/month, but that also includes my cable. I've never exceeded any kind of bandwidth, nor do I even know if I have a limit. Seems weird to me.
^ Seems very expensive to me. We pay 60€ a month for 10/5mbit VDSL line and IP TV (with two receivers) with no bandwidth cap. My monthly transfer is always way over 2TB.
I pay about $50 for 60 GB of bandwidth, so it doesn't seem expensive to me. Then again, I live in a country where the telecommunications industry's idea of "customer service" amounts to sending people excessively large bills and cackling from within their piles and piles of money. If you're really lucky, they may even bother you with constant phone calls from bored-sounding operators asking if you're happy with your service.
Stick around. You can have fun here and tell your bosses you're "working".
We're pretty much the same. On the one hand, there's Bell (DSL) and on the other there's Rogers (cable). Both are big megacorporations that offer roughly the same services and a roughly as expensive as one another, overall. Neither of them treat their customers well.
There are other options out there, but these two do dominate, so a lot of the time people have little choice.
How about that. Lack of real competition leads to higher price and less choice. Broadband sucks in the U.S., at least compared to Japan and South Korea. In those two countries not only does just about everyone have access to broadband, but the prices are lower and the speeds are much faster compared to those in the U.S. Not only that, but they don't ration bandwidth like many cable companies are starting to do. What we're seeing here is what happens when you let telecoms write legislation.
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