Month of rain & phone line

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

So I put up my peppers and plants and tomatoes and herbs. It was great.
Then the rain started and it hasn't stopped for more than a month
So much for my plants.

Meanwhile the phone line was going in and out.
I figured it was water in the line.
It was, the water was in my house. The lines with all their splices and taped over slits in the insulation and other assorted hodgepodge of insults over the years have conspired against me and are in league with a month of rain.

I got a hundred feet of outdoor rated cable and started to lay a whole new line from the box to the phone terminal in my office.

Did I mention that the house if 250 years old and the walls were insulated by pouring rubble and mortar in between the clapboards and inner skin?
Yah it's Oak Mortise and tenon with filled walls. So there's no fishing the line through the walls. I can wail away at my walls all day with a 30-06 and still not get one shot out of the building.

So I had to go in through the 12" of oak sill in to the cellar and through the cellar and out of the cellar and up the wall and in under the attic eaves (did I mention the house is HUGE and high and I am afraid of heights?) and in the attic and down through the ceiling and Presto : Six Hours later the heavy lifting was done. Pulling a hundred feet of cable all by yourself with no fish tape (I have a son in law and he has my fish tape) is something of a challenge.. In and out and up and down and all over again like 12 times 'cause the cable would kink no matter how nicely I stretched it out and laid it out.

It was one of only three days in the last month when it wasn't raining.

So today I have the whole thing back and up and running.

I need an aspirin.

[Garth Keel]

As long as your SIL has a job, don't worry the small stuff. You'll eventually get your fishtape back. But an unemployed SIL lasts forever (it seems). :(

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

. But an unemployed SIL lasts forever (it seems). :(

OUCH. I can loan you my 12 gauge.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Cliff, surely there is a wireless fix?

[Brad Wood]

where do you live Cliff? I live in the rainy NW and its been the driest Spring I can remember.

sounds like you've got yourself quite the house

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

Cliff, surely there is a wireless fix?

Nope. The cable entering the building was flawed and wet. Too many years, too many splices, and too many cracks.
I don't trust wireless anyway.

I had a work associate once not too long ago who was skilled at penetrating the firewalls and passwords that companies had for their wireless connections and riding on their internet and phone from a link up in his car.

There are people who transact in illegal material who are also expert. I've seen too many instances where a person's or a corporation computer was turned into a zombie warehouse or part of bot net because of peer to peer or wireless routers. In cases where the illegal material is child porn stored in encrypted files the prosecutor's office takes a rigid position of it's your computer so you are going to jail. Never mind you didn't know it was there, were not able to decrypt it or even know it was there or access it ever. None of those things matter - it's on your box then it's your crime.

I won't have a wireless anything that can mate up to my computer and I won't use a peer to peer protocol.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

where do you live Cliff? I live in the rainy NW and its been the driest Spring I can remember.

Beautiful lovely down town new jersey. I'm in what they like to call rural new jersey. The rural aspect is fading fast.

[/quote]sounds like you've got yourself quite the house[/QUOTE]
Old buildings have this knack of always having one's full attention.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Nope. The cable entering the building was flawed and wet. Too many years, too many splices, and too many cracks.
I don't trust wireless anyway.

I had a work associate once not too long ago who was skilled at penetrating the firewalls and passwords that companies had for their wireless connections and riding on their internet and phone from a link up in his car.

There are people who transact in illegal material who are also expert. I've seen too many instances where a person's or a corporation computer was turned into a zombie warehouse or part of bot net because of peer to peer or wireless routers. In cases where the illegal material is child porn stored in encrypted files the prosecutor's office takes a rigid position of it's your computer so you are going to jail. Never mind you didn't know it was there, were not able to decrypt it or even know it was there or access it ever. None of those things matter - it's on your box then it's your crime.

I won't have a wireless anything that can mate up to my computer and I won't use a peer to peer protocol.

I don't begin to follow all of you just said Cliff, but I do think I'm worried about my networks now. Good luck with your wiring.

[Neal Clayton]

Old buildings have this knack of always having one's full attention.

ain't it the truth.

on the upside, the humming phone lines tend to sort themselves out.

we had that quite a bit down on the louisiana coast when i lived there (if a whale farted west of the mouth of the rive we had water in the yard, part of living there). after a few days when the lines dried out things typically returned to normal.

didn't do much for internet service when the hum was there though :(.