Secret Free TV Signal Through Internet with NO Cable Subscription or Equipment
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This requires you have an INTERNET subscription through your cable provider. You do NOT need a cable tv subscription to make this work. The cable provider still sends this secret tv HD signals for dozens of over-the-air local channels through the cable.
If you use a splitter make sure you buy a splitter for DIGITAL signal.
Use this method to get rid of your external antenna. You can run a cable straight out of the wall outlet to the back of the tv. Then run the auto program channel procedure and watch how many channels come up!
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I have just tried this tip and all I got was one channel which was a commercial 😅 channel but rt if it's working for someone else it's an great tip 👍
This worked great for me but I live in a small town with a small town independent cable provider and they have not scrambled the signal. I do, however, get even more channels with my outdoor antenna. For some of you asking questions, this is only possible if you get your internet service from a cable company. It will not work if you get DSL or internet through your phone line.
Most cable companies filter all frequencies above 50Mhz if you have Internet only service. Which means that you won't get any TV signal. Not even the "over the air" stations. A few cable companies don't bother to filter, but they usually advertise that as "Free basic cable with your Internet subscription".
I got about 25 channels through the cable to our house for years. Recently I moved and also got about the same number of channels, but recently, over a period of a few days, channels kept getting blocked until there were none coming through. I bought an over-the-air antenna, put it in my attic, and now get about 10 channels, with most coming from a tower farm about 60 miles away (but weather and other conditions make it spotty at times).
I tried this it works fairly well however I have an outdoor large over the air antenna it also has a rotor for pin point accuracy I I get upwards of 50 channels most in high definition picture is absolutely perfect.
Thanks so much for this video. I live in an area where i'm unable to receive over the air channels with an antenna. I will definitely try this. Thanks again.
A TV/internet subscription with Verizon FIOS in northern NJ does allow an additional TV without a converter box to receive broadcast channels when scanned. If you just have a internet subscription, they'll block the TV signal.
Can’t like this enough, I have been looking for something like this for 2.5 weeks thank you lol
Yep, worked for me. No cable, but have internet. Now I have 138 channels on my tv!
The picture from a good antenna is much clearer than any cable image. I never disconnected my antenna even after getting DirecTV. Your local channels will always look better through an antenna (assuming you live close enough to the TV transmitters in your area.) Also with an antenna your local channels will not be knocked out by weather problems (rain, snow or ice) like they will when using the satellite.
If you live close to a TV transmitter thanks to my neighbor's trees and poor reception through my local company a lot I don't get but they still want to charge me a lot of money
great video bro
I've done this & it works with my smart tv & got over 100 channels, thanks for the hack !!
Good Stuff! Many thanks from Clearwater Florida!
And right after the digital transition of 2009, in the apartment I moved in to, was cable ready (back in 2012). I had an old school tube TV (analog only) ran a cable (not antenna) scan, and boom I got a hand full of over the air channels straight from the cable company. I was extremely excited that I didn't have to use the converter box and antenna setup. Well unfortunately only lasted about a few months 🙁. They never disconnected us, but they did actually encrypted their signal (I researched it) But at least it did work and got to experience it after analog basic cable.
I had cable for several years after I dropped it. One day, I hooked up the coax and it worked. Eventually, they either put on a filter or cut the line. I got satellite after that. Dropped that many years ago, too. Happy RUclips and Amazon Prime and Hulu user. Lots of free stuff out there. Pluto and a few others out there, especially if you have an Amazon or Roku type device.
I dropped cable to use Kodi and get everything for free.
@@kevindumais9610 what is kodi?
If you want to get the pay to view channels get a high frequency pass filter of the internet, install it on the co-ax in your external box and then do the splitter as instructed in this video then scan. It still works for me 9 years later
Woot! It worked. I also got ALL the paid channels to. OH MY. THANKS!!!
Worked for me. 146 channels and counting. Now this is real cord cutter stuff. Thank you
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Won't it fry your tv 📺🤔
THANKS BUDDY! You helped!
This does exist in some places however.
1. Not using a filter before your modem can cause lower internet speeds.
2. The cable lines, switching, and routing technologies that run to household across the country take years to update for every city this means newer installations will not work as you are receiving digital channels on equipment that is unable to encrypt it.
Thanks it worked for im n rural country foybd about 70+ channels
I was doing this as a boy 👦 I was about 10 years old. I ran it through my vhs videos player and it actually picked up quite a few channels. The best was the adult channels😂 learnt so much that the first girl thought I was a professional at it at 14🤣🤣🤣
I remember when I was 8 years old when I accidentally found out the Playboy channel when it was Sacramento Cable channel 69. My grandpa found out he had a blackbox.
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Same here
@@olafelsberry8475 haha that happen to me
@@olafelsberry8475 you pay later they send you the bill and it say you watch it I try so many times and my step dad was mad this was when I was 12 I’m 30 now he’s 55
Even when this was published, cable providers were encrypting their signals to prevent "basic" cable to be picked up by an ATSC tuner. Now it's just about impossible to find an unencrypted cable feed.
It was great while it lasted!
I was getting 150 a day hooking up hot cable as an installer back in the day
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I wish I would have read your post before pulling wires from here and there and wasting my time! I've reset the connections reset the power change wiring around and everything! A waste of time! Now I'm frustrated!
more than likely all computerized now you think they would give you the ota channels as an incentive to get basic for a trial period at least
Worked for me! Got 30+ channels!
Don't work with Comcast or Cox but does work with Optimum in NJ
In 2019, this no longer works in most places-- you need the cable box because the signals are scrambled. Just stick with the outside OTA antenna, and you'll be fine.
By law, they're required to provide local channels for free. If they look scrambled to you, it's because there's a filter somewhere on the line. Simply remove it and you're good.
Try after 4/24/18. Spectrum is going all digital then. You'll need digital box to get anything after that date.
when i first moved where i live now(an apartment) this used to work, but one time the cable company came for one of my neighbor, and we saw the guy installing something in the gray box outside, and since then all channels are just "snow"... so yeah, i don't know if it's the same everywhere, but here it's not scrambled from their end, but in the box you've got on your house!!
Remove the filter that they installed then all the channels will come back, or get a label printer buy a hollowed out filter thats bigger than your cable, switch out filter with hollowed one, put sticker over hollowed one to make it look like its still there, then enjoy the channels
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@@dicklongmire6836 Ur weird...
It's not a secret signal. The RF signal includes the entire spectrum of service. (Data, Voice, Video). Some markets do not yet encrypt the signal. In those markets there are little things called filters. Your installer neglected to put a HSI (High Speed Internet) only filter at your tap. With that filter, the only RF you could get would be the frequency of the DOCSIS channels the internet is carried on
This was my down fall I had all services, canceled TV had only web, tecks never came out it was canceled at source later had line damage teck came out and rectified the job putting on a filter as I only have web
I used to do this in 2010-2012. I would sometimes get channels like Discovery, Nick and ESPN for a little while.
This USED to work on our local cable system and I took advantage for several years. Last year, the company made some "upgrades" and it no longer works.
if my company did not make the upgrade... My question is do i need to use the split-er or can i scan with out it
+Jen KayOss you don't need a splitter unless you are also using the cable for your Internet service and one needs to run to your modem then
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belly tripper Should work, but you will have to open your mouth to get SOUND.
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It worked for me, thanks!
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You can't do it with Charter they scramble everything unless you have a box now used to be able to do this years ago but it stopped sometime around 2013
Yes, the FCC requires that cable companies not scramble OTA (over-the-air) channels in a particular market. You can only get OTA and local community channels like cable access, but no basic or premium cable channels. This is the law as of now, but since the FCC seems to be bought now, who knows how much longer this regulation will remain.
I have internet through my phone n use my hotspot for my Roku TV....But my neighbor..who is a stone throw away has cable n his sometimes comes in on my tv
Did you hear about how they ignore engineers who sent them a letter warning them about what what happens when they went to a weaker signal?
last year we lost all internet and cable TV after hurricane Matthew in Georgia. a friend who works for my cable TV and Internet company told this trick and it worked for local channels. put a old cable out TV cable in screw point, and run other end up my wall. I had to cut connector off other end and peal back coating to expose bare cable. but I was able to watch local news and updates from hurricane Matthew.
I don't have cable or satellite tv, and only had it briefly in 1998. However using a regular antenna, I pick up close to 60 channels. I get to watch movies, old t.v programs, music, and thanks ot having a roku tv there's plenty of channels I can install to watch anything I want without paying a dime.
worked for me on virgin media uk, most channels are scrambled but the odd SD and HD channel coming through
using the sony bravia android
this might work on older Analog based systems but not on the Cable where I live in SC. It is an all digital signal and needs to be decoded by the cable box to work. I think Cable companies did this to help stop the stealing of premium channels as those older Analog boxes were easy to hack to get all the channels. They used to put filters on the pole to block the frequencies of the pay channels but it was a pain to add/ drop pay channels as it required them to come to the pole and remove the filter. With all digital signal, they can turn on/off channels at the box without leaving the office. It works just like a sat tv does.
Not necessarily. It will work on any active cable feed that has FTA (Free To Air) channels and no filters installed.
this entirely depends on your situation, in my case (spectrum) the day they said the channels would end, they were and thats that, im guessing cuz i have internet, they have me filtered ...
Three of the 5 major network channels work digitally. Fox and NBC are not digital. Thanks for the video.
It totally depends on the cable company. Here in the Midwest, with Comcast, you will get a few channels but nothing of interest. Some are the channels they broadcast their advertising on. Comcast requires their box to decode the signal (it's encrypted), and without that box, you won't see nuttin' honey. Yes, I tried it, and I have a cable TV subscription with them.
Got Comcast for my internet and no cable.Just a antenna.
Use a TV antenna, you get the best picture there is, it's free and you're not stealing from anyone or using any backdoor tactics to watch TV.
This is not stealing lmao. They purposely broadcast a few free channels.
It definitely works without wifi or cable...what you do is...change the spliter around and basically use the vable line thats coming in for your tv and reverse it and use it as a antena ..it just takes a few minuets but in june they will be scramble it out without a box..but yes you are %100 right it works...
@Andrew...what do you mean reverse it?
Unbelievable that people need a video for this...
More and more cable companies are getting wise to this. Now in Northern Illinois and Southwest Michigan, you just get a video about how to sign up for cable tv, when you connect your internet coax to your tv. At lest that's true for Comcast.
yeah because they have filters blocking the cable signal thats the new thing now. it won't work at this time.
SOME cable companies don't need to install those filters. They are allowed to encrypt all the channels, EVEN THE LOCAL BROADCASTERS. TV subscribers have to rent converter boxes to receive ANYTHING and the cable company can disable those boxes from the comfort of their offices.
robertvirginiabeach yeah I doubt they're going to be able to encrypt local broadcast channels unless they have a deal with the local broadcast channel companies that provide the TV. Channels
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When i Did auto Scan it picked up a bunch of channels on the scan but when I try to watch TV it's says scramble channels or weak signal unfortunately.
Great information just downgraded Direct TV Choice to Select because my discount expired monthly payments increased from $100 to $130! We have raw cable only for internet will give it a try.
If I understand correctly, you are basically plugging into the coaxial cable that is in your wall, and you use that length of wire to pick up the over-air signals...
For most U.S. markets, this ceased to be true as of year 2015. All the major carriers now encrypt the signal. You may get one 480i channel -- explaining that a subscription and set-top box are now required.
Yeah..
If you have cable internet, use the splitter just like you did and you will get all basic cable channels.
And doing the splitter like that you have to make sure what home is it is because with the different homes you can change to a different portion of the frequency and not get some channels the ideas to have the same moment on both sides for the modem and the TV instead of two different ohmage of a signal
My Cox cable allowed that type of set up,as long as I still got internet. However a year ago they went to a digital receiver.. That required their receiver to be used,or it was a no go.
As I understand it this is legal. Some cable companies are starting to block the tv signals. I'm not sure that it is legal for them to block the basic HDTV signals. Since their bills include a tv tax. Even the bills that are so called flat rate include this tax. Please check the legalities on this if anyone finds anything written in stone let me know. Thanks
Dude nobody is gonna check your fucking house and nobody knows what are you doing as long it is a secret
This worked before the cable provider went all digital.. Once they went digital the lower end (local) channels that were available disappeared as is the case with most cable providers.
True, that is what happened to me when Cox went all digital. I had this set up for a long time.
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You're wrong. When cable companies went all digital, all that meant was that the unscrambled channels could still be had...provided your TV had a digital tuner that could pick up unscrambled cable digital channels. He's using the DIGITAL tuner on his TV to get these. Didn't you pay attention?
This can work, provided the cable company hasn't started scrambling EVERYTHING.
@@nakyer your wrong..... cant get anything here either
i have the same set up as you but have not connected my cable yet . Now i am going to try this out
thanks
Dude , I just used a jumbo size paper clip
, open up one end , stick it in antenna port of TV , an hit scan , presto !!! I got 58 channels over half are Spanish an a couple Russian ones
Cable companies have now added a cable box (mini) for OTA local cable channels. In other words, a cable box is needed even for basic / local channels. They are squeezing every penny out of subscribers because cable subscriptions have declined over the past several years.
Your 100% correct,I cannot pull in basic tv anymore with just my internet hook up.
You are a genius!
This used to work but no longer does in my situation. There is a easy solution though. Since over the air TV moved from analog to digital they also moved frequencies. Channels 2 through 6 moved from their lower frequencies to much higher frequencies. They are now virtual channels. Typically they are located in the UHF band. I am mentioning this because with the use of higher frequencies you no longer need the large cumbersome antennas of the past. The new wavelengths are much smaller. All that is needed to get 30,50,or even 80 mile radius reception is a much smaller less gaudy antenna. Cutting the cable with an antenna is cheap and easy nowadays.
This will work for some people, as Corry Owens pointed out. Besides, hooking up a TV to the wall seems not a big deal, and using a splitter neither.
it is geographically sensitive...depending on where you live, there is limited ar wave channels in certain areas...you can do the same by simply placing a simple WIRE to the back of your TV and hang it up and get the same thing ( acts as an antenna ) nothing new here...only issue is many locations only get PBS for example ( like here) others may get a few more some less and some Nothing at all.....and cable companies are scrambling signals, so most require a cable box to get anything from their cable lines now.....
FCC gave special permission to comcast to encrypt every single channel. You need to at least rent a cable card to watch over the air
Does this even apply for PBS and other supposedly free TV stations?
Still working in late 2021 in Texas. I get locals and TNT, TBS, FX, ESPN, Foxnews, Etc.
it work from the past for awhile but now it requires a decoder card encryption keys for that now...even local channels...have Grande internet...all scramble without a filter
Cable,internet and parking.
Should be free!
Step 1: Have Direct Tv install a dish on the roof and run a line to each tv. Step 2: Cancel Direct Tv service. Step 3: Go buy Clear Stream 4 antenna. Step 4: disconnect dish and hook up antenna where dish was. Step 5: Enjoy free crystal clear tv :-)
YOUR the best but not cus all I get is fucking gay porn..... Well my women for some resone likes it...
I heard you say if you don't have either internet or cable subscription this won't work but yes it will work because you can go buy an antenna
most cable/web providers put a notch filter on your connection if you pay for internet but not tv. it blocks the tv frequencies but not your internet. my provider goes one further and encrypts the tv signals so you cant remove the filter from your line and the signal can only be decrypted if you pay for a special box
I disconnected from Comcast tv service, but kept my internet. I tried this, but didn't work. But not have ESPN and Fox News is a blessing
Does not work because the signal is scrambled. They have been scrambling the signal for years. I am surprised if it works.
It is not scrambled, they changed the way it comes threw. No longer using voltage and filters.
I get one cable Hispanic channel perfectly on Spectrum in central Indiana. The other three are local channels that are somewhat watchable but choppy. Obviously, all of the others are filtered or encrypted.
I got 5 analog and 23 digital channels...analog did not come in but all digital did. However only two of the major networks... I still call it a win...
This used to work for me, but now they put a filter at the box on the street i no longer the local channels. I just got internet.
The reason it might work is because it is basically a large antenna. You can pick up pbs in my area with just a coax. But hooking this up makes it 1000% more powerful.
Pretty much, the coax stretches for miles and acts as a super antenna with minor interference from the insulator
Nope. Picking up antenna signals with coax cables only works when they are not connected to anything and are cheap, old and bad quality. Proper modern coax cables and connectors does not act as an antenna. And if it acts as an antenna, it will either be a very bad one or have a bad connection. The whole design of a coax cable is to only receive the intended signals from the other side (in this case the cable provider) and reject any external interference (f.e. OTA signals). That's why you can't use normal wiring for cable TV because those in fact will act as an antenna.
You can't get those movie channels is stuck by changing the whole almonds and which will change to a different frequency so that's why you would actually need a ohmmeter to find out which channels come across at what frequency play around you can get all the channels if you saw choose to
thanks I will try
I think I'll just stick with a $5 antenna .. Cuz out here when you turn off the cable they cut the cord literally
That’s why he said if you have an internet subscription. And they usually don’t cut the cord they just either disconnect it at the nearest junction box or put a filter on it at the Jbox.
Go get the tools and put the cord back together they sell everything you need to do it..
Even the broadcast channels are scrambled now. This hasn't worked in my area for years.
Yeah! Comcast encrypted the public channels back when they started their Xfinity marketing / branding. But ... hey ... RUclips TV in conjunction with a local power companies FTTH is a good way to get the Comcast / Charter IV removed from your financial bloodstream.
wrong. TV is free. It's been free since since the 1940s. All you need is a decent outside antenna. Or rabbit ears if you are less than 20 miles out. A paper clip will only pick up a few miles from the tower. Only analog TV was shut down. All new sets pick up digital. Old analog sets need a converter box. Just hook up the antenna and hit the scan in the menu.
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@@markteague8889 Confirmed .It does not work with Comcast
Had xfinity and tried this, all I got was ads for their box for the local channels.
@@johnsmith6586 You're right! I can't believe how many people get that wrong! If people want better information about the do's and don'ts about broadcast TV, they should watch the Antenna Man's RUclips channel.
That signal is OTA broadcast. The coax cable is acting as an antenna. You can get local channels without having cable Internet if something is acting as an antenna, plugged into the back of tv.
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OMG Scanning. So far I have 6 channels. Thanks!!!!!!!!
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I tend to believe this doesn't work anymore. I've heard in the past, that with the right non-standard gear it was possible to capture cable signals when they were transmitted for the use of the cable company. I'd suspect one modern internet line could or has replaced this aspect of the cable providers 'grid'.
I may put the old mast back up when I reroof the house, with an antenna for broadcast TV. The thing is I often just don't have the time for TV. Frankly, it effect on me has worn thin. TV is pretty boring for the most part. It has been of recent years it has just a challenge to overcome (getting the newer digital signals at the fringe) and not a goal worth reaching.
The older I get the more I realize that television is basically a waste of what little time I may have left.
Do you think a Signal Booster (splitter) like the Motorola one that boosts the standard 3.5db all the way into the higher frequencies like in the hundreds would get all the other channels like History, Discovery, and the such? Essentially a channel is nothing more than a frequency. So expanding the frequency should in theory. Allow you to ping the channels.
i suggest if you move into a house or apartment that is wired for cable, before you ever call the cable company to turn it on go ahead and hook it up and see if it works. a lot of cable companies are way behind on thier disconnects. i used to work for a cable company and after i quit a buddy of mine told me that he had never payed for cable, but has gotten it free in 3 different houses over a period of 25 years......FREE CABLE FOR 25 YEARS!!!
That does make since because spectrum internet is over the tv line . I will try that soon
this only happens when the cable technicians forget to put a filter on your line so you wouldn't watch tv without paying for it
They don't use filters to block stuff anymore, most companies stopped that years ago.
When you used to be able to slip the cable guy 20 bucks to leave the filter off after you cancel cable.
They can just scramble all channels, that obviously only subscribers get, so you need a ci+ module to watch them
The FCC mandates this back in the early 2000’s to accommodate the switch over from analog to digital TV signals. All current TV have to accept both NTSC and digitally generated signals until 2025. By that time, all TV stations world wide will be broadcasting only digitally.
So after 2025 tvs can be manufactured without ntsc analog receivers?
@@evanbv8793 Its already happening in UK and Europe TVs now have digital only tuners and no Video inputs all HDMI only
I had these channels until this week. They all stopped coming in. Now I have none.
this will not work with modern digital cable systems. you are on a old system that has not been upgraded to digital. enjoy it why you can.
it's probably digital, just not encrypted.
My cable company requires that you subscribe to basic cable to obtain Internet service specifically for this reason. Because our town has a monopoly on Internet service AND cable and electric service, they get away with charging $29.00 per month basic cable (11 awful channels) and then another $38.99 per month for 300 GB internet service.
yeah that is what I am afraid of. Nice idea back in 2017, but Cable companies are catching on to this and shutting it down from getting local channels over the Cable mode on the TV without their box. I will still stick with the Antenna for local channels and streaming. Some may still be lucky, but most this wont work.
This doesn't always work. Some companies scramble all channels and has to be ran through their set top box to decode even OTA channels.
Frontier is like this.
I have internet (300 mps) but not their tv service. I don't have "cable" but subscribe to a few streaming networks such as paramount plus, prime, disney, and hulu. For the local channels, I bought a flat plastic type antenna and hooked it up via coax cable to the tv antenna outlet on the tv. I get cbs, abc and pbs, but not nbc 75 mi away. I may hook up and outside antenna because we had a wildfire destroy the old one. I live in a hilly fringe reception area.
i work for spectrum cable and this will work if the installer who hooked up your internet did not place a filter on the line, some do, some don't. If the filter is on the line you will get nothing, if you have comcast you will get nothing. Spectrum will encrypt their signal soon and then you will lose those channels
+Corry Owens that stinks. Well back to antenna at that point!
arent there laws that say the cable companies cant encrypt ota channels... ive been experimenting with different things bought a 50$ antenna at walmart and its called the mohu leaf gets the same channels as a homemade tin foil and cardboard antenna but since its signal is amplified a little the channels are more stable
Vox Atlanta Would this work with OPTIMUM cable provider?
Corry Owens I will have to try this
cable companies can encrypt their cable signal, which is not over the air. Comcast encrypted their signal in 2010 which meant nobody can steal it. ota is never encrypted and is free with an antenna
The caveat is that you need ATSC 2.0 or 3.0 tuners in your TV, if you have an older one that doesn't have this capability, this won't work at all. It also depends on who your cable provider is, some won't broadcast this information, if you're provisioned for a data modem only. The cable boxes these days are "provisioned entertainment devices", which are modems but work a bit differently than the modem.
Here's the thing, if the data is being broadcast over the cable, if you have Internet, if you disconnect your modem, you should still get those channels, assuming the data isn't encrypted, which is what the boxes are really for, decrypt and send through plain coax signal, ATSC based coax signal, HDMI, composite+stereo or component video + stereo sound.
It's probably an oversight from your cable company. Here all cable TV is digital now, we no longer have analog cable where you just put in a splitter and feed it to a TV tuner. Even when we did have an analog cable signal, cable company would block the analog feed at the building entrance with an inline filter, conveniently locked in with a special connector that needs a special tool.
Most cable providers now scramble even the over-the-air channels which can only be decoded legally using their cable box. This will not work for most people.
Lol little do they know that we just use broadcasthenet...
5000 channels and nothing on. I'll stream my anime thanks.
does it work if you have Suddenlink in Texas? No Updates in 2018?
Nice. Also if you have a roku tv, you get 100s of channels with internet. No internet? Use your cellphone as a hotspot. 100s of channels
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