Cable TV Companies Bring True High Speed Internet Access Home
The Internet provides a great number of opportunities for entertainment, connecting with
friends and business associates, getting an education, tracking investments, and finding
great deals while shopping. With all of these advantages, you probably want to have a
high speed Internet connection in your home if you don’t have one there already. While
upgrading from dial up is a good thing to do, you’re probably kind of confused by the
options that you have available to you. This is understandable with all of the different
technologies and the companies that are offering them that you have to choose from.
If you’re fortunate enough to have access to cable TV, then you’re also probably
fortunate enough to be able to get an Internet connection that’s delivered over that same
broad band digital cable technology. Granted that if you have access to cable Internet,
then you also probably have access to DSL, satellite, and possibly some kind of
municipal WiFi Internet as well, but there are still a lot of reasons to consider broad band
cable.
The first advantage that broad band cable has over other forms of broad band Internet
technology is speed. With the possible exception of muni WiFi, broad band cable high
speed Internet has the largest bandwidths with download speeds that vary from six to
twelve megabytes per second, depending on the level of service that’s been subscribed
to and whether or not the special Power Boost feature (which increases the baseline
download speed by fifty percent for larger downloads) has kicked in. Both satellite
Internet and DSL have bandwidths that are stuck around three megabytes per second
and often quite lower, depending on where you live and how much you’re willing to pay.
Getting your Internet connection over a cable also provides a greater level of security
than any kind of WiFi. In fact, there are even people who look for WiFi connections so
that they can see what’s being transmitted- in effect spying on what WiFi users are
looking at. Since there isn’t a good way to make muni WiFi service secure, this is a very
real danger. It’s also theoretically possible to spy on satellite Internet signals as well.
Naturally, since DSL is transmitted over phone lines, it has a similar level of security to
broad band digital cable Internet connection, but there are many other ways in which an
Internet connection based on digital cable technology is superior. The fact that cables
are a lot beefier than phone lines means that the signal that can be sent over them is a
lot faster and more reliable. After all, skinny phone lines are subject to a lot more
interference than coaxial cables and that interference can really slow things down.
All of the extra speed and reliability and security that you can get from a broad band
cable Internet connection such as Comcast’s translates into a level of Internet
performance that you’ve probably only experienced in libraries, coffee shops, or at work
up to this point.
The Internet is an increasingly vital part of everyday life and this technology can help
you make the most of it.
Watch the video related to cable tv companies
An “Anti-cable” television ad from the 70’s (then known as Pay-TV) to discourage viewers to support cable television. Ironically, they encouraged people to support the movie theaters. Just some ploy by Network television companies to eliminate the competition from cable TV.
Help answer the question about cable tv companies
Is it safe to give your Social Security Number to Cable TV companies?I plan to sign up for a cable TV service with Comcast. I inquired with them and they said They need my name, address, phone number, and social security number to verify ID. They said having SSN tells them if I would be required to have a deposit or not. Is this normal? Are there any alternatives to giving out SSN? Thanks in advance.
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How old are you?
Yes, gorillas and octopi are in the same category as vampires, the Frankenstein monster, and Satan himself…monsters.
They could easily do it. The problem is that many of the channels charge the cable company per subscriber. By offering them in packages like that, the cable company can spread out the cost.
The only reason they want your SSN is to do a credit check. I say don't give it out. You may then need to give a deposit or prepay in advance. But this is a better solution than letting them have this highly personal information. Really the only people who must know your SSN are your employer and SS administration, no one else has the right to bar service from you for not providing this information.
Damn… they failed miserably… where would we be w/o cable?
COX or QWEST
Bullshit. They didn’t air 99% of the movies on TCM, they didn’t have 24 hour sports with the ability to see every single game, and no it wasn’t “free tv” it was government cartel no competition tv that sucked and was very limited in choice, quality(very little quality), and the worst was the news John Chancellor, Cronkite and the other communists were more in control of the media than they are now, and they own 80-90% of the tv news, with the highly succesful both sides allowing FNC kicking ass.
Yup. so our favorite horror movies won’t get paid. read my comment again. the petetion was for free TV. Watch you you blow off at
They have no obligation to provide any free service. From my experience you can use the existing cable as an antenna without paying anything. If not you have to get an external antenna, or pay the $18 per month to get good signal.
You don't want to watch TV, it's just crap teen drama shows now
Give it time. At a minimum, if you cannot already, you will soon be able to at least choose between your cable company and your telephone company for all of your access: TV, Internet and Telephone. Depending on where you live, this might be Comcast versus Verizon for example to carry these services. These can be or might be at least 2 choices for you, perhaps more with time.
Uh no, this is government run and controlled airwaves getting pissy at privately owned non-communist non left-wing channels from takign away their money and providing them with any competition.
If you want extra channels and features then yes you need a digital box, if you just want regular TV then you can have just the coax wire from the wall to your TV.
The box will get you HBO, Showtime, Starz, etc….but it will also give you a better picture in most cases. With the box you can also enjoy on demand movies and free previews.
Back in the 1970s, your local TV stations aired all the things you pay to see on cable for free. The only major TV stations then were NBC, ABC & CBS with hit movies in the morning, afternoon, evening, and late night. Plus they aired all the biggest sitcoms.
wow. they failed hard. now we were fighing analog vs. digital.
if only they had more signers to the petetion
Blow off, the government has no right or authority to control tv, or tell ther tv stations to switch to digitl, much less own and run them as they do.
There are two types of signals traveling down most cables system lines. Analog and Digital.
Digital is then split further into Internet and digital TV. Both of these need a digital converter.
Cable modem for Internet and a digital cable box for Digital Cable TV. These two can be turned off by the cable company at will.
Now if you put an illegal cable TV converter box on your line, the cable company can trace it right up to your house / apartment.
If you have Internet, you may be able to connect the cable to your TV and get the basic analog signals (channels 2 – 75) without the cable company knowing it. That is if the cable company did not put a filter block in the line.
This block is a mechanical piece about an inch or two in length and is usually on at the pole. Although some times it is put in lower to the ground. Remove it, reconnect the cable and the analog signal will pass.
Note: Not all cable companies use the analog signal. some are 100% digital. Also a port block may require a special tool to remove it.
But since the analog signal is not traceable, try it.
I don't understand it…but I still don't like it.
I live in a small, SE Wisconsin area and the only cable I have access to is Charter. Is it right? I don't believe so. I don't know how all of that works…Ma Bell? Sounds like a monopoly on cable, to me…so there is no competion because the townships/ towns/villages/cities only let one company in?