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immortal321 asked in Consumer ElectronicsTVs · 1 decade ago

How to turn on a cable outlet without calling the cable company?

I pay for cable, so I'm not trying to do anything illegal. But I have 2 cable jacks in my living room (one on either side of the room). When I had my cable turned on I thought I had asked the technician to turn on all of the outlets when he asked.

I wanted to rearrange the living room and put the TV on the other side of the room, but that outlet does not work. I was wondering if I could manually turn on that outlet (by messing with the box in my closet?) without having to have a technician come out and do it - which would be an enormous hassle.

Update:

I'm in an apartment. I don't know if that makes any difference. But I don't want to string a cable across the room from the working jack. There is a box in my bedroom closet that has a bunch of cable cords and what-not which is where the technician turned on the other jacks - as far as I know.

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  • R T
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    There should be a cable coming in to the box (in the closet) from outside. It probably goes into a splitter (a little box with one input and a few outputs). Find the cable that goes to the other jack and connect it to the splitter.

    Source(s): Broadcast Engineer for 30 years.
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    6 years ago

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    I pay for cable, so I'm not trying to do anything illegal. But I have 2 cable jacks in my living room (one on either side of the room). When I had my cable turned on I thought I had asked the technician to turn on all of the outlets when he asked.

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  • PoohBearPenguin
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    It sounds more like those jacks aren't connected to the cable coming out of your cable box. I know when I first moved into my house, 2 of my jacks weren't even connected to the TV cable at all. They were little just a few jacks stuck in the wall. I had the cable guy put a splitter in my cable box, so he could run a 2nd cable to that room, where he drilled a small hole in the floor so he could stick the cable up into my room.

    If you can find out where the cables from your jacks actually go, you might be able to install a splitter yourself. You can get a splitter for the cable at any store that sells TV accessories. The cables just screw into it.

  • Turd Ferguson
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Mine just has a coax cable that connects to a splitter and then the coax cables go from there to the various outlets. No one had to turn anything on for me. Maybe yours is different, but make sure everything is connected before you call the cable company.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

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    Hello most likely were the cable comes into your house its not hooked up u will have too call them because u probably need a new rf connector that u need a special tool too install or its disconnected at the telephone pole hope this helps!!!

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Make comcast come out and fix it. I had all kinds of problems with one of my boxes and they finally came out and replaced it and POOF! everything works again. if it's not the box you might try a new or currently working coaxial cable, sometimes they go bad.

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