>
>
> First of all, the actions of the technician as presented were
> inappropriate
> and far out of scale to the "problem" that he was presented with.
> "Threatening" your wife is not acceptiable, and should be followed up
> on.  Period.


It was, and I'm satisfied with their resolution.

They cannot forbid you from running wires from one property to another. It
> does not matter what kind of wire it is.  That being said, you also have
> to
> follow safty codes (which a wire running across the grass is a pretty bad
> violation of iirc).  They CAN bring suit against you for theft of service
> if
> they so choose, and try to prove that you were sharing service across
> properties. Please note, this DOES include wireless.


Interestingly, the last three people I talked to, including the supervisor,
told me that wireless is ok.  I'm taking them at their word.

Does that give the tech the legal right to chop up a wire he *knew* was in
> active participation in theft of service?  I don't know.  IANAL.


He didn't know that, he assumed it.  As you know, the router can be
configured NOT to pass that traffic, but he didn't ask, didn't call his
supervisor, which he should, he took it on himself to vandalize my
equipment.


>
> I do want you to understand the frustration that probably resulted in this
> action being taken.  Before I moved to dispatch/field tech support, I
> stumbled
> across many, Many instances where people were hooked up illegaly.  Most of
> the
> time it was simply them using the existing connection after bashing their
> way
> into the lockbox.  Then others were where they either cut their own
> fittings
> (incorrectly most of the time), or just stripped back the dielectric and
> stuck the center conductor into the port.


I've done CATV/MATV work, and I'm an extra class ham who owns two repeaters
and maintains three more. About the last guy to run Tandy RG-59 on something
like that.
Besides, I wouldn't want to pollute my own environment.   This was a CAT5
cable though, no risk of that sort of thing.


>None of this excuses the actions of the tech.  I'm sorry you have had this
ordeal.  You may want to be careful about persuit legaly, as it does require
that you admit under oath to engaging in theft of service.  **shrugs**

Depends on the definition.. According to them, I can wire it into my laptop,
and as long as I'm on one side of the property line it's ok, but 1' to the
west and it's a problem, but if I do it with wifi, they don't care..  I'm
sure they'd like to charge me extra per room, person, and eyeball, but
that's not gonna happen.

Hope you have fun, and btw, you can do much more interesting things with
wifi
and cable modems then simply use it as a link.  I have a friend who is
snarfing a neighbors and binding theirs and his for a much bigger pipe :D

VBG  Yeah, all sorts of things going on out there.   I'm just a nice quiet
guy.
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