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Trying to fix an issue with a friend's TV. He has an extra black box labelled "xfinity" in addition to the cable box and he doesn't know what it as. Can anyone help out and tell me what this does?
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Xfinity wanted something like 20/month two years ago for the skinny modem/router......I went and bought Netgear Nighthawk 200 some odd bux.....thing that gripes ME is the streaming of FOX NEWS in the evenings, in the back bedroom....from ~8 est to ?? the thing goes to a blue screen of some studio pix, and kills advertising/programming......bunch of crap I not paying for another TV tuner, like for the living room set.....
that tuner they provide for the LR set works off the same damn cable, as the rest of the WIFI box/streaming gear......I would love to buy a tuner box for the living room and save some 25?/month...... |
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then maybe 5 years ago by now, I went through another go round with them.....try I was on modem #5 for that season, lighting took out FOUR of their installs.....last one fried the underground cables to the house..... Comcrap has expensive service, but their wires just under the power company off the poles seem to be protected, and I made damn sure in MY case...the outer shield metal is grounded but GOOD around my house in several spots.....obviously including the main input point..... BTW I have a heavy starter motor gauge wire from my metal roof on the room addition to a ground stake in the back yard...... |
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Last I heard the data limit is like one terror-byte per month......when I was streaming up in LR and the back bedroom, I went over that limit for two months....they didn't up charge me a whole lot, on account of it was a newly found thing then......I dunno what if any limit they have these daze.....but their tuner box up front is 20/month and lately they have added a bunch of music stations...called Music Choice, and mine is Smooth Jazz, plays most of the day as background music, NO COMMERCIALS OR DEAD AIR......
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After I watched the vid I decided to ping my home network. Result: The 200 mbps plan I was paying for was pinging at 37 mbps. Took a couple of hours and a trip out of the house (in the convertible at least) but much better and a cheaper deal. |
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