ot- I beat the cable company.

[mike havens]

Thanks for the compliment. I don't think either of the techs had a wand
toner... only a pocket toner. WHen I was working with comcast everyone
thought I was crazy for spending the money for the wand rather than getting
the crack-pipe toner. I told them how to use it and the next week one of the
other guys was telling everyone that it made it so much easier to find one
cable in a bundle of fifty.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> not bad.. i bet with a cable toner/test you would have likely been
> able to get more done. I think the main difference you were willing to
> really get involved, wich says quite a bit about your work ethic :-)
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:19 PM, mike havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey guys, I am so excited. I did a job last week in this guys penthouse.
> > This guys condo was comprised of two floors with roof access and
> overlooking
> > the Atlantic Ocean. I go in and he has one television in the corner going
> > and nothing else. He tells me that two comcast technicians had been to
> his
> > place and that each had spent 3 hours trying to get the other cable
> outlets
> > working but to no avail. They then told him he would need  a professional
> to
> > do it. I wound up spending 6 hours there but I left the place with three
> > additional outlets activated. It was crazy; in the wall next to the
> > television was a hole with four cables running out of it and upstairs was
> > another hole in the wall with five cables running out of it.
> Unfortunately,
> > none of those cables were connected to each other (break in the line?). I
> > found that one of the downstairs cables ran into a downstairs guest room
> and
> > that one of the upstairs cables ran into the family room (also upstairs).
> I
> > also found a cable upstairs that ran over the hallway and then down to
> where
> > he wanted his tv to be. Cool.... found lines to where they need to be;
> now
> > how do I get the cable upstairs? Well, I went into a closet where the
> cable
> > ran into the condo and there was a cable running into a box. The box
> > apparently was for closed circuit tv from a previous resident and that
> cable
> > ran to the upstairs master closet. I then finished up by running a cable
> > from the master closet along the baseboard, over the doorway, into the
> water
> > heater closet, through that wall  into an adjoinig closet (which housed a
> > bar), behind the bar,then along the baseboards to the outlet that fed the
> > bedroom and the family room tvs.
> >
> > Isn't that a great story? I beat comcast!
> >
> > --
> > :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>
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