[driven]

The TV in my family room is dead. (Actually, the jack is dead or off.) The jack in my home office for the cable modem works. (No TV in there though.) The jack upstairs in the bedroom works. (We never watch it ...)

The primary jack with the Tivo and home theatre ... dead.

It appears to be something in the junction box outside my house ... the sealed box that says "only open upon penalty of death."

So ... I call Charter Cable. They say that they won't send someone until DECEMBER 14TH!!!!! Un-friggin real!

I'd go satillite if not for:
- It costs more than my cable
- I'll lose my signal during strong southern storms.
- I still have to keep my cable for the cable modem.
<sigh>

I may be on Macnn alot more over the next week ....

[JoshuaZ]

Darn. You could just NOT watch TV.

[CharlesS]

Or... you could just use the one upstairs in the bedroom. You'd probably survive for a freaking week...

[KeriVit]

Crazy a week for lack of service. Too bad I was confused by the rest of your post

[residentEvil]

99.9% of the time, cable splits are made inside the house; most if not all installers will only one run home run outside. you _might_ have a seperate run for the cable modem, but anymore, that is the first split from your home run inside.

outside box -> 2 way splitter -> one feed for modem/one feed to a 2 way/3 way/4 way splitter depending on your setup for TVs

i would check your line running to the living room and see where it goes. if you bedroom works and your cable modem works, the your signal is fine outside. your splitter in the house is bad/run to your living room is loose/etc.

[driven]

I ended up finding the problem myself. They have some sort of signal booster outside ... only 1 of the 2 output ports on it are working. There are actually 4 ports:
- Cable input (from street)
- Power (coax feed from inside my house ... 120V)
- Output 1
- Output 2

Only output 2 is working. I just switched the downstairs cable on it. (We actually don't have a TV upstairs any more .. that was my mothers before she passed away ... I have a little portable set that I can use to test the line). <-- We generally don't even go in her room much.

Personally I almost never watch TV. However I have two children that watch for about an hour when they come home from school before they start their homework. (And we let them watch the Christmas shows.) I kinda had to get it going for them.

I left a note inside the little box outside on the booster that said "booster bad"). Hopefully the cable guy figures it out when/if he shows up.

[wdlove]

I wish you all the best with your Cable.