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Grounding Wire

Please tell me why the grounding wire would be attached to a water spicket.  The installer I had attached the wire around my loose leaky water spicket outside my house and I am not comfortable having it there.  I was told I can move it myself and I am not happy with service since I have to move this

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Wire repair

I need someone to come out to the house to fix a wire that was cut outside.

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Buried service wire

My service wire is buried in my gravel driveway (makes it difficult to uncover the BSW).  My driveway crosses a creek between the house and the cable along the street.  The culvert which carries the creek under my driveway has failed and my driveway has washed out twice since Christmas eve.  Repairs

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exposed wire

AT&T put a box at the very front of my yard with a wire than runs back into my neighbors house around the January/February 2017 timeframe.  Neither I nor neighbor knows what it is for.In 2017 I place 3 or 4 calls for service to have the wire buried.In 2018 I have place another call in early July.I h

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Need to extend wire from TV

Hi, I have moved the position of my TV in my living room from a table stand to on the wall.  This now requires the need for me to extend the wire I currently have.  The wire would need to be twice the length of the wire I have now.  Can you provide that to me?

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Accidental wire cut

My boyfriend accidentally cut the uverse wire that goes from the telephone pole to the house...yikes...now What? And how much?

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Buried wire safety issue

Can someone help me with getting the wire buried from the pedestal to my house.  This has been installed since December of last year.  I contacted the buried wire department and they set locates but no one has come out and that was several weeks ago.  Please help........our kids play in the the fron

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Question about flat wire and installing it

I live in an apartment, and have four boxes in my home. Two standard, two HD. Problem is that the wire has to run from the porch through the door. I was told that DirecTV recently stopped carrying flat wire, but was told I could find some online.http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?PROD=WRFC2

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Extend/add cable wire

I want to set up my receiver in my room where the cord is too short to reach. How can i add/extend the cable wire to achieve what i want to do and what do i need to do so?Edit: I want to add/extend the 'coax cable' that connects to my motorola vip 2250 Picture added...i want to extend the cable

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SWM Single Wire ODU

How do I reset the SWM single wire ODU to the "pointer" (signal finder) mode after hooking up a receiver?Thanks!

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Wireless receiver jumping to live TV

This channel has jumped to live TV to allow TV viewing or recording on the DVR receiver   The error above has been plaguing me for quite a while now. I understand it happens when the remote receiver cannot communicate with the DVR. AT&T "tech" support has been unable to help me. It occurs after I've

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downed wire at my house

Hello, There is a downed wire in my backyard. I spoke to DTE and Xfinity. Xfinity said it is an ATT metal strand

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TELEMUNDO LIVE

Why TELEMUNDO live is not available in DIRECTV STREAM?

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Ground Wire Size

Hello, I am having a new satilite installed next week on my roof.  I want to have everything ran for the installer before they get here.  I want to know what size ground wire I need to run from the service panel up to the satilite?  Does they ground need to be solid or can it be braided (THHN)?  Tha

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Wireless receiver gets live TV but cannot see DVR

I have a wireless TV receivers.  It works normally except it is unable to connect to the DVR receiver: when I try to pause, it says "Pause is not available.  The DVR is currently unplugged or restarting".  I can schedule a recording, however I cannot view the recordings or pause/rewind live TV.  The

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Wire Fish

I have an installer coming on Sunday and didn't want any holes drilled from outside to inside.  I know for the installers to do the wire fishing in the walls it costs extra.  I want the cables running from living room to directly below into the crawlspace, then go outside from there. I ran the fish

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live tv

Recording some shows but will not let me watch live TV. Error message is all TV services are in use on this receiver to proceed select a recording.

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live streaming

How many tvs can live stream at once?

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Live tv

Is there a button to skip to live tv

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No live picture

Hello,I cannot view live tv or recordings on a secondary wired receiver. I can see live television in the guide but when trying to select a channel, I receive the message "no programming scheduled at this time." I can also see the recordings on the primary DVR but cannot playback. Any suggestions?

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