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Dawson70 · 07-23-2004, 12:48 PM

Heres the deal. My cable company recently updated their old cable to new. They put a new box on my house and put a 1 in 4 splitter inside there. (one in.......four out)
The part that pisses me off, is they put these little cylinder locks over the male end of the threads, to stop me from simplely screwing the coax back in to the splitter. My kids have a playroom in the basement and it always picked up the channels they watched, with out any kind of box. Now, the cable I had running to that tv, is disconnected and I cant plug in the cable because of these stupid locks.
When I called the cable company to complain, they informed me that they will remove the locks, but then I have to pay an addittional 15 dollars per month for the extra tv and they will send out another cable box. I was happy they way it was. I knew my kids could not receive HBO and MAX without the box so I didn't have to worry about them watching anything "bad". But they could still receive NICK and CARTOON Network etc etc.
What???? 15 dollars for an 3rd connection?
Does anyone know how to get these off?

07-23-2004, 12:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
Dawson70 Here to Help My Fellow TFP'er Location: All over the Net....(ok Wisconsin)	Anyone know anything about coax cable locks? Heres the deal. My cable company recently updated their old cable to new. They put a new box on my house and put a 1 in 4 splitter inside there. (one in.......four out) The part that pisses me off, is they put these little cylinder locks over the male end of the threads, to stop me from simplely screwing the coax back in to the splitter. My kids have a playroom in the basement and it always picked up the channels they watched, with out any kind of box. Now, the cable I had running to that tv, is disconnected and I cant plug in the cable because of these stupid locks. When I called the cable company to complain, they informed me that they will remove the locks, but then I have to pay an addittional 15 dollars per month for the extra tv and they will send out another cable box. I was happy they way it was. I knew my kids could not receive HBO and MAX without the box so I didn't have to worry about them watching anything "bad". But they could still receive NICK and CARTOON Network etc etc. What???? 15 dollars for an 3rd connection? Does anyone know how to get these off? __________________ "I Finally Finished My Goal....You Can Too! Yippie Ki Ya...