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How do cable Companies limit access to their other channels?

I have the 11 dollar cable sevice.How does my cable provider (Im in NH and the companies name rymes with comi-cast) limit access to the full set of analog channels? How could one potentially change that?

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consistent with probability. the respond is they're out of Bandwidth. Does the operator on your section have a fiber backbone? Are they going to compress the sign to grant extra channel dropping the conventional of the HD? Cable as a shared media won't help standards of in the present day in short. The question now could be how will they adapt.
One way is to subscribe and pay for them. The cable company pays for channels that aren't on basic service, that is why you pay them. The other is to find a way to unscramble them and steal the signal. That is a violation of federal law.
They have a trap on your line so you only get the limited amount of channels. If you are smart, you can remove the trap yourself and get more cable channels. You can also get jail time. Pay for it and you will get it.
Well because it is analog and not digital those channels can usually be aquired using the right equiptment but sometimes they put these filters on the line at the point where your line meets theirs and in that case it can be more difficult. You can steal Payperview and all that good stuff usually. I would need to know what kind of cable box you have to help more.
Well. you could change it by paying for it. BUT for ones information here is a little information about cable television service Cable is divided into two types - Addressable (Digital moreless) and Analog. Addressable is typically when you have two way communication with a converter box. Software on the cable companys end controls what access that box does or does not have via it's layer 2 identification known as a MAC address. Analog service is much simpler and simply involves what's called a trap (basically a filter) which is installed in the line (usually in the pole to make it more difficult to tamper with) which can allow or restrict access to certain frequencies in order to give channels or take them away. Certain cable companies (such as Charter) have began using an addressable trap however so they can connect and disconnect analog service from their office without having to issue a truck roll to do so.

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