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Installer drilled and damage my floor since September but been getting the run around

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AT&T Technican Scratched Hardwood Floor

Yesterday AT&T installed U-verse TV and the technician scratched my hardwood floor helping me move a file cabinet in place. I had slid the file cabinet on the area rug so it was temporarily away from the wall and still sitting on the area rug on top of hardwood floor. He tried to pivot the file cabi

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I need to change my name from Gina to Barbara

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How to change display name on Directv account

The primary person whose name is displayed is deceased. I need to change it to my name which is an alternate name. How do I do this?

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Has anyone here really watched the channel? There is no real content to the shows on Baby TV. Your baby would get as much out of this channel if you put a lava lamp and a dozen butterflies in their room while playing twinkle twinkle little star on re

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baby TV channels not available any longer starting 1/1/2014

it appears babytv (330) and baby first is no longer available, at least in my area (Birmingham, AL) . i chatted and confirmed. Thanks for the heads up ATT. I have a son who's on the autism spectrum. Needless to say it didn't make for a good start to the new year for him to wake up and not have the c

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What does each coaxial cable from the SWM connect to?

Just had a new floor put in. The TV Direct TV connections, our internet and entertainment things were disconnected and moved to put the new floor in.  Now the work is done and I need to get up and running again.  I have been able to get everything working again except the Direct TV. 

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Is there a way to place a Switch right after Fibr-Ethernet and before it reaches the ATT router?

Basically I have a 2 floor house.  The Fiber is fed downstairs to my living room and it switches over to Ethernet.  That Ethernet port is now occupied by the fiber which then it goes to the second floor where my ATT router is located.   Now my TV is in the living room and the only way for me to watc

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Define regular antenna. To me thats a 10'+ long outdoor rig mounted outdoors with a properly rated pre-amp pulling in everything within a 70 mile range, and 100+ when the atmospherics are right. The cord cutting craze has turned the lava antenna and

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Channels removed from DIRECTV lineup (January 2017)

I am done with Directv!!! I pay alot of money to have your service and you pull this crap!! I am tired of you putting the consumer in the middle of your fight with the local stations without any compensation for the days that we are without local channels.  Lucky that the Patriots are playing on ano

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Problem: unable to close the TV table doors

Last Thursday your DirecTV installer did a new HD-DVR system including a special cable and disc. He put a dual cable inside the TV table after drilling two or three holes for the cable thru a cellar. After the cable went thru the floor from the cellar to the Great room floor to the TV table. It has

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My receiver won’t connect to the internet after relocating modem

My primary receiver won’t connect to the internet after my modem was relocated to another floor of the house. Is there a small antenna that I can connect directly to my primary receiver to pick up the connection? It won’t pick up wifi either.

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My TV had internet access when it was connected to a wired Uverse receiver.  The trouble with your suggestion to have it connected directly to my router is that my TV is on the second floor while my router sits on the ground floor in my family room.

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Uverse wireless receiver freezes when ethernet is plugged in

I have a Samsung TV in my bedroom capable of wired connection for internet.  It was working before when it was wired directly to my Uverse receiver.  I recently had problems with my router and that had me call for a service technician.  The earliest dispatch for a tech was 3 days.  My bedroom TV wou

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I have 5 receivers, 2 of which are Wi-Fi receivers. The Wi-Fi receivers are on the same floor with the gateway. The gateway is located in a communication panel in a clothes closet. The Wi-Fi device is located in the closet outside of the communicatio

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U-Verse loses signal nightly

Lately I have been experiencing "Lost Signal" message on my cable programing. The outages occur after midnight on the East Coast. No matter how many times I "Reset" the cable box, the signal disappears after 15-20 seconds.

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Can I just connect the two units with a cat5 cable??

The living room is networked via wireless (Apple Airport Express), and the second TV is directly above (upstairs), Couldn't I just run a cat5 cable from the main HDDVR up to the second floor unit? The Airport Express is plugged into the main HDDVR, then use the second ethernet outlet to go upstairs

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We have 5 TVs and all but the one in the office are fine.  The connected to the DVR on the main floor is obviously ok. The one in the basement and the two others on the 2nd floor are ok. It's only the one in the office.

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Wireless TV Receiver drops signal every day

The wireless receiver in my office (room directly above the DVR) loses it's connection to the WAP daily.  The WAP literally sits next to the DVR on the same shelf - can't get any closer.  I have pressed the WPS button on the WAP for 10 seconds and then the OK button on the receiver and get "Gateway/

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Moving receiver from basement to main floor

We just had an HD/DVR receiver installed on our basement TV, and have now decided we would like to move it up to the TV on the main floor. The drilling for the cables is downstairs. My question is, can I just run cable from that up to my main floor, and then connect the receiver to it there? Or is t

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Does the directv remote work when box isn’t in sight?

My box would be located in the basement and I have a hdmi cable going up to the tv on first floor . Would the remote work from that distance ? Thanks

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@mikaeloDepending on how old your house is and what it is built with the problem could be the Wifi signal going to your receiver. If the wap is on the floor below there is a chance that the section of ceiling to the floor above has electrical wiring

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Problems with Wireless receiver.

I just had fiber with uverse installed and while I have had a great experience with Internet access and the main DVR receiver, my secondary receiver is a wireless receiver and I have constant audio dropout and stuttering picture when watching on-demand content. Watching regular Live HD content is fi

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How hard is it to set up wireless receiver

I do not have whole house connect but do have a receiver eligible to hook up for internet( and then I can use IPAD application) I was wondering how hard is it to get an installation kit and do myself. I can't hook up via internet because my router and modem to internet is on another floor . Below is

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What should I do to prepare for installation?

Greetings. My question is, what should I do to prepare for the installation?  My current setup:I am a current Time Warner (TV,Internet,Phone) subscriber.  I am schedule to get DirecTV installed next week at which time I will cancel Time Warner TV but keep Internet & Phone.  I live in a 100+yr old ho

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So they installed from satellite outside through basement floor upstairs. That cord- I assume is the rug-6. Can I just remove the one they installed and replace with a longer one? It comes up through the floor and attaches to the back of the router I

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I need to move my tv, can I just get a longer cord?

The white coat cord that is installed from cable to router is not long enough to reach where the tv is to be moved to. Can I just get a longer coax cord and replace it? The installation is through the floor from the basement. I have another hole I can access but the cord won’t reach.

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Does it matter if the RG and/or WAP is at floor level, mid level, or higher in a room?

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Wireless Receivers Losing Connection

I'm decently technical, which is why I'm asking a question here as opposed to calling ATT.We have had Uverse TV and internet since early 2013, and love the service. I have one main wired reciever in our living room and two wireless recievers in other rooms of our house.I've found the wireless receiv

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