We got cable a couple of months ago. Here's some helpful advice - make sure the people coming to connect your house to the cable are scheduled to come
before the guy who's installing the cable modem. The modem guy came at 8am. He goes, where's your cable box? I go, what? The cable people arrived at 9:30am. So we have to entertain the modem guy for a couple of hours while they connect up our house. And they were from the same company! Never underestimate stupidity