But we were shocked to learn that building a well insulated, concrete bunker of a house, in a tall forest of trees, in a valley, doesn't provide great cell phone service! Shocked, I tell you! Zero bars in the house means rapid battery depletion and inability to receive calls/texts/etc. Leave us a message, people, and we'll step outside every so often to find a bar or two of service and check in.
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| One measly bar of poor signal and repeated failed messages. Fun. |
UGH.
So before moving in we had contacted Comcast to provide internet service out to the house. Should be easy, right? Just drop a coax line and blade it a few inches into the dirt. But, NO. Because of how far we are off the main utility lines, they needed to run a "plant extension" - install a new system amplifier on the main line, a short aerial-span through neighbor-Bob's yard, with heavy gauge feeder cable up to an installed pedestal box and wire splice within 150' of the house.
The price for this install? Oh, only $5000. ahem, what? Katy had to finally visit the regional comcast office to talk to a real person about why this would be so expensive. Eventually we got a call from a manager who was willing to work with us. He eventually said, "if you get me a good trench cut for underground wire install, we can probably do it all for free". Deal.
Enter, the machine.
