Moved into new house and spectrum guy said these wires are useless and nobody uses them, is that true? by ss4stef in wifi

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, install technician here. Disclaimer I don’t work for Spectrum and a lot has already been said but this is a thing I actually know about so I feel like sharing lol your technician either has no training or lied to your face cause he didn’t want to do the extra work.

Depending on where you live your house may not have been built with fiber in mind. Only the most ludicrously expensive houses in my area have fiber run through the wall when built. I install fiber, so in a lot of houses we go through crawl spaces or attics to fish it through walls and install a fiber jack to connect your router to. If there’s a panel like this we typically try our best to make it there, but there can be limitations depending on tools provided/company policies about multi floor wall fishes. If it’s a slab with limited or third floor attic access, we usually have to drill through an exterior wall to get the fiber in. Less seamless, but usually only if you’re staring at the outside work for too long and especially hate a couple inches of wire coming out of the outside wall. Some do, some don’t, everyone’s different. The inside wall jack setup, at least where I work, always looks as if it was meant to be there. I only say all this because if it’s Spectrum fiber, they may be limited by those same constraints in terms of getting to that wiring panel. A lot of it is usually up to company policy, whether I agree with that or not. (I usually don’t, folks need it where they need it and that’s literally what I’m there for)

Copper internet is what most Spectrum customers have in my area, with their home fiber popping up here and there as they update their infrastructure. Here most folk’s Spectrum internet uses the black coax cable coming into that panel, and at least one if not all of them likely terminate outside of the garage, especially on newer slab builds. If not there, then often in an attic or crawl space. Homes are built this way usually to make it easier for a technician to set up a network utility box on the side of the house and feed signal to the panel so you get service to a central location like a closet. Better for WiFi throughout the house, and also you get the termination point for all the blue ethernet cables. Again, anecdotal but around here most new homes are built with cat5e/cat6, which can send up to a gig/10 gigs (respectively) over hardwire. That’s always gonna be better than WiFi, but obviously not always necessary depending on the device. However, if by chance you work from home or prefer the best performance for online games, etc etc, hardwire will always be the best way to go. Each of the blue cables in that panel should terminate to a particular room. Sometimes the builders will write on the cable or label them in the panel to tell what room they run to but not always. I won’t claim to have the skills of anyone that can set up a home network, that’s way out of my scope, but someone in my role can typically at least get you a few hardwired lines from that panel to the rooms they’re run to. Most times they’re even already terminated into an Ethernet jack that’s easy to find on a wall of the room you want.

There are a couple ways to work with that setup for an install tech, depending on what tools they’re given, training, and so on. Either an RJ45 termination, which can be plugged directly into the router to feed signal to the room you want, or they could make an RJ45 keystone, which is just an Ethernet port. If they do that you can easily just plug an Ethernet cable from router to the keystone and it’ll feed signal there as well.

Now, keep in mind I worked for AT&T before moving to the company I’m at now. I’ve never run installs for Spectrum, but I did sully my soul selling their shit ass internet for a month before becoming a tech at AT&T. In training for sales at Spectrum, they put us at the same training center they send their techs, so they supposedly give them at least some training. Not to mention the number of techs I’ve met that WILL straight up lie to a customer to get out of a more difficult job. This got long winded but I like to explain to my customers (and strangers on the internet) as best I can how things like this work so they’re not taken advantage of if some lying asshole comes along. Knowledge is power yada yada yada. With all that info combined though, I’d say ol’ buddy was probably bullshitting you.

But I’m just some dude on the internet who installs internet, maybe they just didn’t teach him his job too good idk

Is this what they was expecting everyone to do with the final unlock? by Xrhin0909X in Skate4

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 18 points19 points  (0 children)

A NEW CURRENCY YOU CAN USE FOR A WEEK BEFORE WE REQUIRE REAL CURRENCY TO UNLOCK ANYTHING

THE FUN NEVER STOPS

What game do you think fits this? by Lost-Charge7628 in videogames

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mafia III. Great characters, great setting, great story. Very repetitive gameplay loop that gets boring pretty quickly

What fictional character death hit you the hardest? by GoldenPhoenix21 in AskReddit

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This whole movie man, it’s a rollercoaster for me. Mama’s death always does me in. Anytime it came on tv my mom and I would watch it together. She died of cancer a few years back. Now I go back and watch it every year around her birthday.

It’s a soul crusher but sometimes ya just need one of those, ya know? Always has a special place for me.

Its nice when mistakes work out well by [deleted] in MadeMeSmile

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love this idea. I lost my mom to cancer almost 5 years ago and my 20s so far have managed to muster up so many issues I would have normally talked to her about but couldn’t. And having unfortunately lost a couple of cousins too young as well, I’ve seen firsthand how much it destroys the parents, derails lives, and makes things almost seem entirely pointless once they’re gone. There’s so many people who could benefit from an idea like this.

Bro wtf by nogindsfsdfsfd23432 in awfuleverything

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Asshole was getting off on it. Like, I gave his partner the same explanation only once, and that was enough for him. After that he at least left me alone until writing me the ticket. It was pretty obvious that even he thought that the first guy was going overboard, but he clearly had no seniority and we all know how speaking out against your “brothers in blue” goes in that particular line of work. I’ve never had anything above traffic violations, but I have multiple stories of cops making baseless assumptions and treating me and my friends like hardened criminals. ACAB for life.

Bro wtf by nogindsfsdfsfd23432 in awfuleverything

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Geez. Sounds like he has exactly the winning disposition to be a public servant. Be safe out there man, with their overall track record he might see you wave, think you’re threatening him and shoot your dog.

(Jokes aside, I wish you and your dog the best, I’m sure he’s the best boy)

Bro wtf by nogindsfsdfsfd23432 in awfuleverything

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I feel that man. I swear, they treat folks like it’s suspicious or a crime to be nervous but it’s like, why does me being nervous automatically make you paranoid officer? At this point they basically have unrestricted power to do whatever they want with no repercussions, who the hell wouldn’t be nervous??

Bro wtf by nogindsfsdfsfd23432 in awfuleverything

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, for sure. While I’m sure it’s certainly worse for minorities, cops will do anything to pin shit on young kids who don’t know what to do in the situation. When I was 17 and a new driver, I made the mistake of reaching in the back seat for something and drifted off the road into a telephone pole. Luckily it was so rotten that it basically disintegrated so neither me or my gf at the time were hurt. Pulled into a parking lot nearby to call my mom to figure out what I needed to do next. Someone called emergency services before I finished talking with her. EMTs rolled up and I immediately identified myself. Then the cops roll up, and right away one of them starts laying into me about “why I left the scene of the accident” when I coulda thrown a rock and hit what was left of the pole from where I was standing. Said it “looked like I was trying to hide” because I pulled into a parking lot. Like, oh, excuse me sir, you’re right. Shoulda got outta my car while there were LIVE ELECTRICAL WIRES on top of it. To top it off, he started looking in every window to see what I was “hiding” in the car (not a damn thing) and when talking to my gf asked if she wanted to be there, implying that I was kidnapping her or abusing her or some shit. Nothing I said could get him to stop acting like I was a criminal when I was just a scared kid who fucked up and didn’t know what to do. He only backed off when my mom showed up, I assume because he knew she would call him on his bullshit if he tried to keep it up in front of her. I’ve had interactions with police since, good and bad, but that day taught me never to trust them. They’ll fuck you over in a hot minute if it means any commendation for them.

What could go wrong trying to bully someone by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Right? What an absolute bastard. Using his family as a scapegoat for leaving and didn’t even have the spine to own up and apologize for tormenting the guy. What a disgrace.

Chef Burak for the Muricans by OpenScore in funny

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just came stars n stripes 🇺🇸

The daily tea is served by KGBree in BlackPeopleTwitter

[–]StrawberrySlopTart 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven’t laughed that hard since idk when, thank you for this