I did the same job you are doing for 26 years in cable, love every minute of it retired in 2024 has a cable network engineer😊

Crazy he was happy about the 11 subs now he got mad subs I wish you kept making videos as a new teq this helps a lot !!!

Starting my new job as a cable technician soon so Im looking up tips for beginners. Thanks for the helpful video!

it certainly can damage the cable wrapping the messenger wire around the cable after securing it to the drop hanger. hot and cold temps expand and shrink the cable. you can mess up the impedance on the cable that way. also nothing wrong with the way you do it....its definitely overkill you really only need to complete 3 or 4 wraps around the drop hanger to keep it secure.

I see you stopped making vids are you still in cable?

2-4-4 method

Where can we buy that filter u installed

Bro, how can I apply for that job in a different state than the one????

Please make more videos cuz I’m trying to get a job at Comcast in Florida

Post more videos, i start tomorrow

Did you charge the customer?

Did you charge the cost

Make sure you sell them HBO and Showtime

I can do the outside part , I just hated going into customers homes

Thats me everytime i forget my wrench have to go back down 😅

How did you end up closing that box on the side of the house?

Why did you stop making videos bro!?

Any issues from Comcast with you showing stuff on You Tube? I know you have done all the damn learning courses on Work Day about what you should say and not say. I always thought it would be cool to do a vlog on a day as a cable lineman. I am a line tech for them but was always a little worried about showing my truck or anything with the Xfinity name on it. Have you come across any issues form your higher ups about you posting?

I know how it goes bro, sadly. Nps most definitely can hurt you even if you’re a good tech. I’m a field tech as well,& I’ve gotten nps hits multiple times even though I made sure the customer was happy, up & running. But due to them having to call xfinity so much they believe the survey is about the company’s a whole instead of rating you and the work you’ve done.

Those meters are awful tho

HFC network, surprisingly it still works well in 2024

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No house box? Sheeit.

I like the method. I've seen contractors do sooooo much worse. Good job broski.

your ground blocks are intalled vertical say hello too water damage to the fittings. And no drip loops. Service call waiting to happen

How often do you have to deal with raccoons, or other wild animals? . Also rainy days what's the routine & how can/do you protect yourself ? Do you have all the items needed for ANY job in your van or do you have to return to base or a meetup point with another driver for a needed device or tool?

Former time Warner cable tech. What’s your total repair time allocation? We had to have like 10-15 calls a day as well as 3-5 sales IIRC.

How much can I expect to make roughly? I am looking to become a tech 😊

Hey man not sure if you're still working in the field but i'm about to graduate from a telecom program in August, your vids have helped me a lot to feel more comfortable with all i'll be doing

How come you don't show your meter ? I'd like to see the MER's etc

I miss the plain ol dsam and not having to worry about moca rates. 😖

I wish i had extra $$ for cable tv ..

Love❤

No house box 💀

Finishing up my 1st year at spectrum. My experience so far? People can be stupid 😂

Then do another one in the hood with the Equalizer scenes. You walk uo and scan everything but except they are looking at you witht the big eyes being obvious. The neighbor thats ready to talk about their service messing up too, but they just on the porch with thr big eyes and the subtitles say what you see. The customer next to the cut drop holding it real crazy loke a weapon, the movers with the fishing tape by the tap looking st you woth thr big eyes stepping over the node with no trips. The sudden cancelled next job, and then the suoervisor call and you thr big eyes on the picture when he call. And thr smart panel with no line from the ground block but a conduit, but the white family all are in thr kicing talking at first until you open the closet door, and see it, and tben bam they stip talking and then around at the same time slowly with the big eyes. Then you hit thr task up and tell them your ETC...

I was always tbinking to make a video of putting on RG11 fittins ("connectors") in thr freezing cold, and make comedy out of it. Get thr runny nose and thr struggle grunts to put thr connector on a stiff RG11. Don't even blow the nose just let it run. Then fail the ingress and go crazy again putting another one on, after rhr ingress oassed eithiut thr crimp, thrn failed after thr crimp, but its the last one fittin you have. Looking like Jackie Chan in drunken master with the walnuts. Grt a slow mo on tht runny nose and the grunt. Then put arnold schearzenager from total recall on it trying to get some air. Then fail again and thrn get the sad music on the frosty finger tips shaking and shivering. Thrn get some extras to okay supervisors laughing in a car some distanxe away, and a little girl in a neighbir house pointing out the window at you rolling on the ground. Then have thr farher on the phone crying histerically dialing 411 with thr ckose up on thr numbers. Then ans a tear droo in the phone. Then you hear the hello tbis is 411, thrn she starts crying like a man is outside trying to break into her house. But she is talking about she think you are cutting the phone lines. Then back to me going crazy trying to get thr RG11 fittin to oass infress befire i crimp it. Then a guy walking by wirh groceries says hey! Try this. Then pulls out some spinach in a can with a forearm on it. Miraculously you throw the empty can away and a blow dryer ruens on over your shoulder and the nusic is back on. Eyes light up on champion mess then you get that last push in on slow-mo. Ans it pass ingress at the (UG) Tap, but then everyone over you shoulder, plus that one guy with the can of aoinach to see the ingress results and fail.

Why don’t you used a safety harness?

Why wouldn't you just check the signal at the ground block first

DAM 🦫 It's always the pay rape thing using NPS because they know customers try to dictate your money. Its like all this onlone banking got spies spending your money for you but theowing obstacles and curve balls your way. Then you cant follow through in your plans. It happened to me where my boss pulled a Glock out on me when i came back from Tennesse (travel tech) to Baltimore. Nobody gave a fuck. So i left. He texted me on the work phone to meet him at 7AM at the warehouse. The rehiring process i had to do. I took a break and went to Tokyo, Japan. They treated me like enemy number one. They never let me eat lunch lile that its always work through luncb. Office job cats always get a lunch break we be out in the snow starving. Then we cant get a wife for the back rubs each night. If you do have a wife she fucking the boss n shit. While you in the rain tryna get out of a crawl space job. Im hurt bru. I got envious chicks that will never try to meet me goonf out their way to stip me from earning a honest living wokring. As soon as i out in thr safety vest in a video they throwing up at the toilet. Especially when i showed my 2 bed 2 bath apartment. Bitches will leave ya azs ehen you look like nothing pop'n. Then finally ehen you get thrm bitches off your back you can make a move and they come running back. Like "He tricked me!!!" Now they mad with a dick in their throat they dont love because you left their azzez. It works every single time. Lay low for minute let them run to a new man, get married, boo'd up then BAM. Back out their. My issue is women as you noticed. Im esiting for two clever women to get snatched uo by some random smandom giy so i can make a run for it. You know, i dont want you vut i dont want you to be with someone else ass women. Anyways, yeah. I had a gun drawn in me twice. Once at Cox and then the boss of CUI in Baltimore. Then a car collision just for doing Lyft. Next time im paying for prostitutes to stay with me when i travel as a tech. These bitches wont jump for marriage but they offerbthen miney and food tbey will give you wife treatment all day with no effort. Its better than hoksing your own hand by accident in the hotel bed while the bitch that you love fetting her throat oozed down and she loving it as a lonliness coping addiction and comfort. Im not wasting my time no more tryna show them how reliable of man i am, good and faithful. To get a marriage embrace a beautiful family and some consistent pussy on the daily. Ni99az aint got no biological children. My ex-wife got popped while i was on a slide to 7 and they aint my children. Now on Only Fans with a random smandom. Sorry bru bitches ruined my life just for being a pious hard working man that wanted to be married. I hate these bitches. Selfish as shit. They will get your life jammed up with a dick in throat just because they saw me talk about wanting to get married, but the dick still in their mouth while scrolling on my IG page being sneaky. Instead of suck that nigga dick and drink and be happy ehen he take them out to eat. Dont hold me. In every country these bitches crazy the same. I cant even work and live. I rather die and never see these beauridul evil hearted bitches again.

That MoCa filter can go almost anywhere depending on the job type. MDU's mainly, an UG's with a direct line into an apartment to the wall plate, or the famous Sunday locked Data Room I'll put a MoCa on the wall plate if I can if it's not gonna impair it. And also I put a MoCa on the ground block and the AMP before to get the boxes working. Crazy jobs. A lot of jobs now, that are simple modem jobs, just enable to MoCa if have none, but the ground block will get hit for bad QC. Then new MoCa ground blocks are only good for homes to me. People out then anywhere though like regular MoCa's on MDU's and etc. Most jobs be merely taking off the MoCa ground block putting on regular ground blocks if you have one, and then putting MoCa's on the splitters. It really depends on the button pushers (TSC). TSC jobs are like non-existent. People in a whole other country will be up at 5AM for your slide to 7 walking you through provisioning and equipment add/remove issues. I feel like I gotta go to their country to do TSC. I probably did a few TSC customer jobs not knowing and they only said they work from home. Them platinum customer jobs. The ones where they go outside with you, and be holding the flash light under the crawl space with you. They be the TSC. But how do I get a TSC position? Techs would love me, because I'm helpful as ever. I don't try techs I just help them. They might have families to feed.

Right. Then some jobs the Tech 360 won't let you enable the MoCs system. Even the IP way don't work. It be riggy sometimes.

I dont like how i never got paid to pull a line through a conduit. Not even putting in an AMP. I got paid like an office worker. Barely $700.00 a week...i left when thr biss pulled a glock out on me when i git back from Tennessee. He thiught I was someone else he said.

That loose ground block was the customer wanting you to give them a house box, so they can put it up themselves later. They must have been watching your videos or something, or following you around.

They made sure I can do everything except phone. I can't back feed for ish, unless it's already backed. I tell them to get Verizon to come and open the lines, otherwise I don't touch it. I tell them I'm not trained though. People love to be tricky knowing what I don't know. They don't expect honesty.

I never seem to have time to make videos like this. Yeah them legacies don't hit right anymore. I would have assumed it's the television, and tried another television to be sure the customer not stealing my money. 🤷🏾‍♂️

I appreciate your vid bro, I'm a new hire at Spectrum just finishing my first week of training yesterday & your video really helped me mentally prepare for the process of running wire, checking the tap for signals, & how to safely use the cones while hanging your ladder. Very helpful video sir, I thank you 💯

Yo come back wya, it’s 2023. Next month 2024.

Saludos desde lima Perú

That second job you ground it to another ground . Your supposed to ground to power smh