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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Downed power lines. Cable is strung on the same poles. We have lots of trees here and my street is one of the last ones to get serviced because there are so few houses on this branch of the line.
I have Comcast and the router needs a hardwire connection to the cable. As to cellphone service, I don't have a data plan (by choice), so tethering is out.
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OIC.
I have Comcast, too, but am able to use a modem and wireless router just fine. I wonder why the difference . . . .
The same situation of power lines and cable sharing poles may be true here, too, and I just didn't know because I haven't had a relevant power pole down. A lot of them, on the main lines anyway, are made of reinforced concrete, because we have these occasional nuisances called "hurricanes" come by to visit. It looks like cable companies could bury their cables, like they do around here (and all over the Deep South, for that matter) for telephone lines . . . .
You may be a candidate for using one of the two new satellites that Alphabet (Google's parent company's name now) is supposedly going to send up that will beam down somehow Internet service all over the country.