does anyone know if i can get a cable modem without having cable?

[tkf18ny]

I dont have cable and it will cost me 200 dollars just to add a phone line in my house
Does anyone know if i can get a cable modem without having cable?

 

[jdjohn]

It probably varies by carrier, but you CAN get cable internet service without signing-up for cable TV. Comcast does this, but charges an extra $10 per month for it. By the way, to get DSL you don't need another phone line; one line carries both the analog (voice) and digital (DSL) signals. You can talk on the phone and surf at the same time. You simply have to add the supplied filters to lines going to an actual phone in order to filter out the digital signal for talking.

 

[lander]

I have NYC Road Runner, and you can have only the cable modem without cable. They charge slightly more ($5 I think) for this, but nothing overly painful.

 

[tkf18ny]

thanx for the help so far
actually my father has dsl and thinks running a router off of it will **** his comp up
ill look into road runner in nyc

 

[bigboydan]

why not just go with dtv directtv high speed internet service.

 

[tkf18ny]

would i need dtv already to get that

 

[blueedwards]

how can you not have cable? do you cut your grass with one of those push-mowers from 1958?

 

[Chadster]

yes

you can

 

[Dante]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by blue edwards:
how can you not have cable? do you cut your grass with one of those push-mowers from 1958?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Blue I was on dial up until march of this year I just got with the program

 

[MadCapper]

Heres my question

I have cable for the TV...is there a way I can hook the comp up to get cable too? without paying for the cable for computer?

-MC

 

[Dante]

not that I know of MC its a totally different entity

 

[IntuitionBET]

tommy fu - Just courious...do you have a TV? Or are you watching the good old standby FREE TV with an antennae on the roof?

If its the later keep it up as you are NOT missing much with cable.

I remmeber the good old days when ALL TV was free.

 

[FatTony]

I think what he's saying is, he doesn't have cable tv service and wants to know if can still get cable for the computer.

If that's the question, the answer is yes.

I have cable for the computer and watch tv with a satellite dish.

 

[TTinCO]

Yes you can get cable internet without cable tv.

 

[Pickles]

Just to say something about TTcomment
regional thing i dont think you can on LI
If you can its more than the cost of cable plus
the connection/
It all depends on where you live and the politics

 

[TTinCO]

Yeah Pickles, I should have qualified that....

With Comcast, you don't need cable tv(but AT&T used to try really hard to convince you that you did).

3 run HR!!! My over has life!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[tkf18ny]

i have a sattlelite
i looked at road runner in nyc but it says i cant have it where i live (the bronx)

 

[PO69]

You can get cable internet without cable TV. But the beauty is that you can get cable TV for free if you buy the cable internet. Thye run through the same lines and after it is installed, just use a splitter and you will get about 75 cable channels to use on up to 4 or 5 TV's if you have enough splitters. Splitter only cost about $1.00 these days.

Of course not that I condone such actions!

 

[tkf18ny]

well how do i get a cable modem with no tv?

and lets just say i dont exactly get a bill every month for my sattellite

 

[Chadster]

jesus guy

call the cable company and tell them you want cable modem. you give them the address and they show up and install it