Anoyone a Comcast or wow installer?

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I been helping out my father with some contract work working in vacant apartments. Anything left in the apartments is considered abandoned. One unit I was in left a Comcast cable box and remote.

Can Comcast detect that I have this box if I throw it on the TV in my basement? The TV in my basement wont go above channel 56 unless you put a cable box on it.
 
dave89iroc said:
it is owned by comcast anyway, so.......
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huh??

when you get a new digital box they need the serial number on the box in order to correctly program the box to your specific service (you channel package etc). They know each serial number for each customers box.
 
avbcon12 said:
huh??

when you get a new digital box they need the serial number on the box in order to correctly program the box to your specific service (you channel package etc). They know each serial number for each customers box.
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Yup, my cuz is a installer.I just had him do mine.If its digital they send a signal to the box and you have to tell them the serial number on the box to activate it.He also told me they send signals out every now and then and if a box is hooked up thats not supposed to be, he said it fries the mother board in the box, then when you call and they take it apart...they know why.This is what he tells me anyways.


Mine was hooked up legally BTW:angel:
 
kk thanks for the replies, I figured as much. I rarely watch TV in the basement anyways but since I seen the box lying there on the floor I figured what the hell... Driving home is when I thought about weather or not they would be able to detect it because I noticed the serial number on it.

No biggie, I'll just drop it off at comcast, they are only 1 mile from my house anyways
 
There's no motherboard frying. The box serial number is registered to a customer account. The account holds the programing information. All boxes under that account recieve the same package of channels. Boxes come from Comcast turned off and needing a signal or hit to the box from Comcast to start working. Once working though, you can move boxes from one location to another and it will still work within a resonable distance. Like the same city or the neighboring cities. Some friends would order pay per view and then take the box to anybody's house that had basic Comcast cable and plug it in and watch the show. Comcast does send out hits to all of their boxes that just turns them back off if they are not registered to an account. If a box is registered to an account and it doesn't hit back, it is called a non-responder and a service call is generated to fix the problem.

The point is, if you have comcast already go ahead and try it. If it works, use it til it doesn't. At some point it won't.
 
avbcon12 said:
huh??

when you get a new digital box they need the serial number on the box in order to correctly program the box to your specific service (you channel package etc). They know each serial number for each customers box.
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if you have comcast service, you are renting/leasing the equipment
 
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