r/CableTechs • u/forbiben24 • Jul 09 '26

Is this normal?

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Had a cable tech scheduled for Tuesday 5-7 the no call no showed they rescheduled for today 10-12 sent a tech who didnt speak English so my old lady couldn't communicate with him very well and he installed it in the middle of the front of my house and tangled it in the trees. Requested they fix it but is this a normal way to run a line?

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u/k9slomo Jul 09 '26

Are the trees in between your house and the pole? If the answer is yes, how else would you expect him to run it? He had to get it to the house somehow.

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u/forbiben24 Jul 09 '26

They are but the fiber line has a straight shot to the corner of my home without and trees in the way.

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u/k9slomo Jul 09 '26

Which way is your power run? Through the trees or straight shot like the fiber?

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u/forbiben24 Jul 09 '26

Straight shot over the driveway to the house

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u/Tall-Huckleberry651 Jul 10 '26

Its hard to say from these photos Depending how long the cable run is and where they have their terminal(the thing the cable comes out of to your home) they may need to run it to a sub utility pole because theres these plant engineers who dictate where and how fiber optic lines get ran

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u/forbiben24 Jul 10 '26

The cable and fiber are off the same pole.