Is this still possible?

smg9779smg9779 Posts: 235
edited September 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
Splitting your cable modem signal and getting free cable TV? I used to do this back in college, eight years ago. I'm wondering if anyone does this still? Or if its even possible anymore. The cable TV landscape sure has changed in the past eight years. I'm moving soon, and I'd love to do it again! Damn cable companies....
Steve

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  • Don't most cable companies give you 3 or more connections now for the same price? Or are you talking about stealing it from a neighbor?
  • smg9779smg9779 Posts: 235
    Don't most cable companies give you 3 or more connections now for the same price? Or are you talking about stealing it from a neighbor?

    Well, back in the day cable companies used to send their high speed internet signal and their cable TV signal over the same cable line, I guess because it was cheaper for them. Most people didn't realize this and never tried hooking the cable wire to their TV. If you did you got free cable TV. So all you needed to do was split the line as soon as it came out of your wall, one goes to your cable modem and the other to your TV. Free cable TV while only paying for high speed internet. The signal was always there, I just chose to intercept it with a TV for two years, it was great.
    Steve

    11/18/97 Oakland
    07/13/98 Los Angeles
    07/14/98 Los Angeles
    10/31/99 Bridge School
    10/28/00 San Bernardino
    10/31/00 Mountain View
    10/21/01 Bridge School
    06/01/03 Mountain View
    07/15/06 SF I
    07/16/06 SF II
    07/18/06 SF III
    10/21/06 Bridge School
    04/07/08 Berkeley
    04/08/08 Berkeley
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