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for sure. youd definitely be a case of “hey wait, this is still screwed up at my NID/drop at the curb its NOT me!”

on friday theyd just settled on tacking new drops and outlets to the crown molding as a solution. i was the second one they were about to do it for. its a building that had maintained its 90-100 year old character and kept all the infrastructure concealed and elegant for all these years .

i would have dug a LOT deeper as a tech before i ever did that to your property.

and then even if it is you. half these guys would just as soon drill a hole through your wall and run cables along your siding or brick and be on to the next ticket. they dont run wall fishes or do a mission impossible in the dead space of an MDU or crawl up into a hot attic full of bees like we used to. maybe its contracting culture where you get $40, if that, for the connection and dont get anything extra for effort or aesthetics.

thats a lost art for cable techs and you gotta hire an electrician A/V or phone tech for that now.

and thats … exactly what im going to have to do to get at&t fiber up here from the facilities in our basement whenever ive finally had it with spectrum because apparently this is a lost art over at at&t as well! and “im not allowed to do it” /rant



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