> ...so I can call him a dickhead to his face.
>
> I had FIOS installed today. The installer put the box in the basement, and ran the
> power adapter for it over to the only outlet in the basement, which is about three
> feet from my breaker box. Everything was set up and looking good, the installer left,
> and a few hours later my wife is messing around with channel lists in the TiVo. I
> notice that the basement light got left on and flick it off, and 30 seconds later my
> wife notices that we've lost the TV and Internet. I'm about to get on the horn to
> Verizon, when it suddenly dawns on me... flick the basement light back on and the TV
> signal pops right back in.
>
> The damned outlet is wired into the same switched circuit as the lights. Maybe
> someone more electrically inclined will tell me there's a perfectly legitimate reason
> for it, but to me it looks like 100% pure laziness. It's far from the only bit of
> electrical nonsense I've discovered in this house.
>
> So at the moment, FIOS is working great, so long as I leave my basement lights on.
> The scary part is that when I first moved in, that outlet had a CO detector in it.
Both plugs? Often enough, only one of the two is on the switch...
- Stiletto
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