Can't have both DirecTV and Time Warner Cable

[One Timer]

So I moved to a new house and I have traditionally had DirecTV for my cable provider and Time Warner Cable for my internet provider. Well, apparently in my new house there is something called a "smartbox" where all of the wires to the house come in and has only one cable coming out so I can't have two separate providers. Does anyone know anything about this or ever heard of this?

*For the sake of preventing this from being a discussion on the quality of different providers lets say my parents work for DirecTV and my wife's parents work for Time Warner Cable and we have to have both.

 

[comfortable1]

I'd hookup DirecTV to the smart box and have time warner run dedicated line to modem which should be considered a basic installation.

 

[comfortable1]

To be clear, the dedicated line would run from outside source straight to the modem.