Day
72 ~ Cable Girl
Mar 13,
2014
My first:
I helped my neighbor to connect her two new digital cable boxes and her new
router so her Kindle Fire will work...no charge!
My neighbor asked me a few days
earlier if I knew how to hook up cable boxes and modems and routers. I was not
jumping at the chance to help her because I doubted my expertise in this arena.
We discussed the new digital cable boxes that we had to pick up from the
Charter office to maintain our cable service. After our discussion, I asked her
if she could let me figure out my cable box situation and then I would come to help
get hers connected.
Tonight seemed to be as good a
night as any to pick up my new cable box. I talked to the personnel at the
Charter office about making the connections so that I would know what to do for
my TV and my neighbor’s. I called my neighbor on my way home and said that I
was coming over to hook her up because I felt I knew what to do. I connected
her two TVs and then she made the call for Charter to activate the boxes. Once
I put the batteries in the right way in the remote controls, I got it all
working. I also connected her router to her modem so she can use her “new”
Kindle Fire that she got over a year ago. I guided her a little about working
her Kindle (even though I don’t have one) and finding the different screens to
do what she wanted to do.
I left my neighbor’s house after
9:30 and still had to eat supper and hook up the new TV in my master bedroom. Then
I had a problem that resulted in no connection. After doing some
troubleshooting dealing with this issue, I called Charter. I found out that they did not have me coded
as having two boxes which explained why I could not get a picture. They changed
my code which finally got the TV going after 11:30.
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