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Cutting cable , suggestions?

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  1. yooperdave

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    Gonna call for pics on this on, brother. And how far are you from the broadcast stations?
     
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    Quite a ways, that is why I did not say how many stations I get. I am SO rural that many would be put off by the number (10), but I think it is my location and not the antenna.

    I tried to find the Youtube video of the antenna, but could not find it last night, but found it today. The only change I made was, the guy used 4 gauge copper ground wire, and I used copper tubing 1/2 inch beaten flat with a hammer. Your call...

     
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    Thanks; I'll be trying this for the garage! The closest station is about 75 miles away......
     
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    Very excited, though also holding my breath........... I saw a banner in town yesterday for local DSL, called today and they said they it is indeed at my house. I questioned him quite well as if it ACTUALLY comes out to my house. I signed up for DSL/TV/landline home phone in 2013 and got a call the day of installation that it ended like 8 blocks from my home, he assured me several times it does indeed come to my house. We shall see. OMG, the price is 1/3 that I pay now for 15 gig per month and is................U N L I M I T E D

    Fingers crossed.
     
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    So, sounds like you don't have a landline phone in the house. There's a distance limitation on DSL.
    Check out www.dslreports.com
    We have DSL and have since we moved here. Provisioned for 3.3 Mbs, but some d/ls are a bit quicker. No limit on streaming at all, but if wife and I are both doing that at the same time, it tends to slow down and buffer a little.
    Fiber came down the main drags around here, but no word on if/when Frontier may hook into it and offer faster speeds. Rural sucks for options.
     
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    No Doubt Rural sucks for internet. I did have a landline here, switched to VOIP a year or so ago after the landline (basic service + unlimited long distance went up to $76 per month). Now my VOIP is choppy and tech support is no help. I am now using my cell phone that is poor connection, cuts out frequently and drops calls, but atleast its not as choppy.

    I remember getting DSL at my previous home after like 15 years (we got dial up at some point, 1998'ish) and it was AWESOME compared to dial up. I'm not choosy on speed, we do not stream, but I am paying an obscene amount for satellite internet. And I do believe, the last DSL hub is too far from our house as you mentioned, we shall see. Regional manager that called on installation day to tell me it does not go out that far but the corporate computers show it does is a glitch. Praying that glitch is fixed, but not holding my breath.
     
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    VOIP is internet.
     
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    My Frontier DSL up that way gets me 1.8 meg on the best of days. Admittedly, I am at the ‘end of the line’. When I first got the service they had me provisioned for 3 MB and it was dropping all the time. They slowed me down to 2 MB and it stays connected. Considering where I’m located, I can’t complain.
     
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    It’s easy I do it almost daily...
    Start with these 7A657D88-FDA5-4294-BBF9-644332ACA317.jpeg Then if you want to get serious and need a little more leverage there’s my personal favorite 4BEC5357-3079-4F29-9356-B3C1FDBD2246.jpeg and if that still won’t do it and you can run a line off the splitter there’s always these... 30FFB8BB-A38F-4BDE-832C-603A5DF22F7E.jpeg :rofl: :lol:


    In all seriousness this is a good thread! I’ve been wanting to go to an antenna for quite a while!
     
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    Well, too good to be true, the install tech cam out. My house is 41,900 ft from the hub/station. Now I need to figure out how to get this modem thing returned.

    There are some upscale homes slowly being built near here, guess I will cross my fingers there will be enough to bring it further out here someday.
     
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    I get flyers in the mail occasionally offering 12 Mb (and faster) service, but I'd have to be closer to the "hub/station". Maybe Dsltech could offer some help?
    They really need more folks wanting to hook into the system to build out the infrastructure. Not much in the way of new housing going on around here (which is fine by me), but without it, I'm not sure we'll ever see much faster speeds via DSL. There is a new dealio called G.fast that's been approved.
     
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    Beetle-Kill , did you end up cutting cable? High speed internet is finally coming here :banana::dancer::banana:
     
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