I am not sure if I am at the right place for htis question, but here goes. I currently have digital cable TV in my home with a motorola rg2200c which runs 3 rooms on channel 6, 7, & 13. I asked if it is possible at our cable place to hook up a 4th room and they said yes, but we would have to have it set hooked up for a fee of $39.95. I have found an additional rg2200c that I could buy, but would my husband be able to hook up this other box? I just hate that they want $39.95 to come out and hook it up, when my husband is just as capable. Has anyone done this? Or does anyone know if we would be able to do this on our own? We are not steeling cable, we still pay for it, all we want is one additional room hooked up, without breaking the bank. No additional channels, just the ones we currently have, but in an additional room. We tape a lot of shows, so this would help us with taping additional shows when on tv also.
Thanks for help.
Schel

I assume the unit you already have is leased from your provider (Qwest, I presume)? You can't just go buy a cable box off eBay. These units need to be authorized with your local headend, and they won't just nod and activate any piece of hardware you wave in their direction. Also, with a specialized piece of hardware like that, that box on eBay is probably stolen - they don't sell those at your local Best Buy.

Sorry, but unless they provide you with another solution, you're going to have to go with the arrangement they provide.

Thank you for your input and advice. This is why I asked the question before I bought the item. This answers my question.
Schel

I was once offered cloned new boxes by a company.
They required proof of access to the service.
I think their primary retail service was replacing damaged boxes to prevent price gouging.
I don't know if the boxes would work while another box was online with the same code.

Comcast here just told me that their crummy 30 hour dvr cost $500.
That must be in comcast dollars.

That's TWC dollars, too. It's not the retail price, because you can't actually buy them in the US, but the replacement cost.

Yes, those pieces of junk are actually that expensive. If you go to the Futureshop website and look up the prices of boxes you can actually own (and convert from Canadian to US dollars, which isn't that big a difference), they'll be around $500 or so, give or take.

The ones I asked about were the same boxes, but I never asked about dvrs.
They were around the $100 mark.
It was a us company, but they were being diligent to make sure you weren't using them for fraud, though I doubt the cable companies would be thrilled.
I think most people bought them for extra rooms and to turn in to replace stolen or destroyed boxes.

They needed model numbers and so on, so they had compatible models, scientific atlanta and so on.

Maybe such boxes have been obsoleted.
I don't know.

Usually cable companies have to activate boxes on their systems, and in the US, the big companies usually don't unless they are leasing them to you.

Maybe some smaller companies allow it, but Comcast is one that tends to balk at the practice, unless it's a DCP501, which is a very specific box.