We installed Internet at a very small house the other day, as usual the Cat5 cable from the outside went through the basement, and the girlfriend had said to put the POE and router by the TV, and to run the Cat5 cable up through a hole in the adjacent closet and then through the baseboard, to avoid a hole in the laminate flooring. No problem. But the boyfriend who is the actual tenant told the installer to just put the router in the basement. Again, no problem.
But yesterday the girlfriend's son (maybe 18 years old) calls saying we just installed satellite and he wanted to know where to connect the cable. I figured they had changed their mind and wanted the router upstairs, and he was going to run the cable up through the hole in the floor, again no problem because the installer had left a generous service loop in the basement in case they changed their mind. But no, he meant cable TV, not cable as in wire. Like as in now that we have a satellite, how do I get the cable channels on it? I had to explain the difference between streaming and cable TV and satellite TV. I don't think I was entirely successful. It seemed surprising from someone his age, like as if he had asked for a quarter for the payphone or something. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 6:02 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] customer to English dictionary System is down (reporting via email or FB but Netflix is buffering) From: Nate Burke Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 4:57 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] customer to English dictionary Oh, other big one POE = modem On 7/22/2020 5:52 PM, Nate Burke wrote: There is nothing in the way = at lest 1 tree limb, possibly a motorhome. I can see the tower from the ground = Through a forest with 75' of height. On 7/22/2020 5:47 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote: I think we need one. For example, Satellite = antenna (e.g. you put a satellite on my roof) Cable = TV (e.g. where do I plug in the cable) WiFi = Internet Booster = range extender Linsky = router (also Link System) Slow as dialup = meaningless, nobody remembers dialup _____ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com <mailto:AF@af.afmug.com> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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