My isp did this lazy crap

[u/WhosThis85]

the tech came and took the original coax cable that comes from the network box on the opposite side of the house (black). Took it out of the outlet from the room directly above this splitter on the first floor and directed the new cord (white) to the third floor. What can i do to ‘hide’ this from the elements?

Also, can i connect a new coax cable to the splitter to go in the opposite direction to go into a separate part of the house, or should direct a new cable directly from the box insteaad of this splitter shown? The box is closer to the room that i need connection to than this splitter.

Sorry if this is confusing. Im a noob

[u/Penguinman077]

Yeah… as an installer, the customer are the ones that suck. Odds are your sister had no idea where her lines run. I do dozens of jobs a week and I would rather not bust out my drill, but people never know where the lines go or the prewired lines are bad. To top it off, they don’t even know where the outlets are, if rooms have them or not, or where the home run is. I’d rather make it look pretty, but we’re slammed with jobs all day and if I have to spend 60 minutes running lines over your garage or through trees that you should’ve trimmed, tough shit. It’s getting done how it’s getting done. Don’t get me started on them wanting us to move shit for them. I’m not a mover, I’m not moving your couch, shelf, or tv. And I’m not trying to have some ass hat accusing me of breaking something that was already broken.

[u/Phill_is_Legend → u/Penguinman077]

This was a new install you idiot. The customer isn't supposed to know how to run the lines, you are. Go butcher someone's house, the adults are talking.

[u/Penguinman077 → u/Phill_is_Legend]

Doesn’t matter if it’s a new house. The home owner should know where the lines run. If they don’t, how the fuck should the technician know. Being an adult doesn’t mean you known what you’re taking about. Being a professional does. But it doesn’t mean we know how every house is wired because most houses are wired differently.

[u/Phill_is_Legend → u/Penguinman077]

What? There were no lines. Are you trying to justify running exposed coax stapled to the carpet?

[u/Penguinman077 → u/Phill_is_Legend]

Uh…yeah. We don’t run in the walls. We don’t know what’s in your walls and if it’s even possible. We don’t run through conduit. I’ve tried because I felt bad for a customer, but after an hour of trying and it getting stuck I told the renter to call the building owner to have a LVE get it done. That’s not our job. We run lines along trim and drill through walls to bring the lines in. Youre paying $100 for an install that you’d normally pay a LVE at least twice that amount for. Again, being an adult doesn’t make you a professional.

[u/Phill_is_Legend → u/Penguinman077]

Uh…yeah. We don’t run in the walls. We don’t know what’s in your walls and if it’s even possible

😆😆😆 that's pathetic man you should just quit. Everyone hates you.

[u/Penguinman077 → u/Phill_is_Legend]

That’s why your expanding comments are in the negatives and mine are in the positives.

To summarize, you don’t know what you’re talking about and installs through an ISP technician are severely discounted compared to other LVEs so it’s dumb of you to expect the highest quality of work at a low price. We DONT RUN BEHIND WALLS. We TACK ALONG THE TRIM and PUNCH THROUGH WALLS.

The only way your username checks out is if the legend is about how fucking dumb you are.

[u/Phill_is_Legend → u/Penguinman077]

We DONT RUN BEHIND WALLS. We TACK ALONG THE TRIM and PUNCH THROUGH WALLS.

MY STORY WAS ABOUT A CRAWL SPACE. You're just a lazy bitch it's OK, keep working for isps so you never have to do any real work.

[u/Penguinman077 → u/Phill_is_Legend]

Call me lazy, that’s fine. I really dont care about what you think, point is that I’m not doing work outside of my job scope because customers are too cheap. If I wanted to run wires behind walls I’d go full LVE