Context: my apartment building used to provide basic cable to all the residents, and we had cable boxes in our apartments as well as in the lounge spaces in the main office building. They discontinued the service for residents and we had to turn in our boxes, but the tvs in the lounge space still have cable boxes and get those channels.
If I bring a cable box from a friend’s place and plug it into my wall in my apartment, will I have cable again?
I guess what I’m asking is, does the service really come from the box or from the cables in the wall?
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The signal is always coming into your house, however it’s encrypted. The cable box checks your account to see what channels you have access to and decrypts it. So getting another cable box will not work.
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