I have had FiOS television and Internet for two months with no problems. Around 9:30 AM Friday both services went down. Phone support was unable to diagnose the problem. Finally, today, a technician was able to come out to my house.

He very quickly established that the wire had to have been cut, pronouncing that all his tests showed it went nowhere. So, we started following the wire.



It goes from the TV box and router into a splitter then through this wall...



Where it comes out here in a closet.



Then it goes through the wall on the back side of the closet...



Into the attic. I didn't take the camera in there but crawled back in it twice to verify myself that the cable then goes into the wall..



And comes out here. Into my bedroom. This cable has been here since the day I moved in.

The Verizon guy would not outright call me a liar, but insisted that there is no way I have ever had any service. Having followed the wire myself, it's hard to disagree with him. It appears to have never been hooked up to anything.

I think I'm cracking up.

8/20/2012 7:45:41 PM

Seriously, buddy. The future is now.

8/20/2012 7:55:14 PM

unpossible

8/20/2012 8:02:32 PM

^^ took me a minute but I got it finally, ahahahaha

8/20/2012 8:03:12 PM

that's one hell of a dedicated prank

8/20/2012 8:04:18 PM

I have thought about it over and over and there is no other solution other than me losing my mind or there being a demon in the wall.

8/20/2012 8:06:18 PM

you guys did a signal test afterwards to verify that that's actually the right cable, right?

8/20/2012 8:08:07 PM

He just ran a new cable from the outside. It is the cable because I can follow every inch of it with my own eyes and hands.

8/20/2012 8:08:59 PM

There's probably a spitter in one of the walls and the two ends you can find are outputs from that splitter.

8/20/2012 8:21:47 PM

did you try to pull the cable back through all those walls? i bet ^ is right, there's got to be a splitter and a chewed up wire somewhere

did you try tracing the coax from the ONT into the house?

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8/20/2012 8:31:03 PM

Quote :

"There's probably a spitter in one of the walls and the two ends you can find are outputs from that splitter."

This is what I told the guy. He claimed there wasn't. I didn't believe him. So I crawled in there twice myself; I can pull the cable through each part of the wall and I can actually visibly see the other side.

8/20/2012 8:33:37 PM

Prove it, cut the end off in your bedroom and pull it all the way through

8/20/2012 8:34:42 PM

That's what I'm probably going to do. I would love to find a logical explanation for this (which there has to be one).

8/20/2012 8:35:55 PM

Wouldn't Verizon have record of your data usage and tv service?

8/20/2012 8:37:23 PM

Drugs are bad, mkay.

8/20/2012 8:47:49 PM

you should start tearing your walls down right fucking now

8/20/2012 9:04:03 PM

Why is your old ass house so shitty?

8/20/2012 9:06:57 PM

8/20/2012 9:09:22 PM

^^Because I rent.

In New Jersey.

8/21/2012 9:46:15 AM

are those corrugated cardboard walls in your attic?

8/21/2012 1:05:27 PM

Yes lol

8/21/2012 1:34:09 PM

Verizon would have to have records of your usage, as has been said before.

The "splitter in the wall" trick is the only thing that makes sense. Or--and this is a stretch--do you rent the entire house? Or only part of it/half of a duplex/something similar? Is it possible there had been a splitter in the wall and someone else pulled it out and put a straight through connector in, thereby removing your connection to the outside world? No good reason for that but it's a possibility.

Of course if you cut the end off the cable and pull it all the way through, and it's one single uninterrupted cable, then supernatural forces (and an extremely long cable) are the only answer.

8/21/2012 11:13:30 PM

did you figure this out?

what were the demons charging for internet? was it fast and cheap?

satan-net can't be much eviler than at&t, if any

8/27/2012 10:35:37 AM

I finally found a splitter hidden in the most perfectly discrete spot while pulling the cable out of the wall.

End of story nothing fun at all.

Though this does mean some asshole downstairs cut the cable.

8/27/2012 10:38:42 AM