Houston, We Have DSL
Woohoo! I am sitting at my computer in my new home office, on DSL. It’s crudely arranged, but it’s a start.
See, there are 3 phone jacks. Initially only one worked. Last night I made the wall jack in the kitchen work by taking the plate off and pressing where the wires each connect. Magic. I still should wire a line into the office, but at least the kitchen is the next room.
There’s a phone line strung so we have to duck under it to get into the bathroom. It hooks to the DSL modem, sitting on a rolling cart beside the office door. A network cable runs into the office, across the floor to the middle of the room, where the computer sits up on a 2 drawer file cabinet, and plugs into a router there. Then the router has a cable to the computer.
The office also turned out to have the least power outlets of any room. One thing about the place is the outlets are ample and reasonably modern. There are some ancient, ungrounded outlets, but those are all unpowered, obsolete, relics. There is no outlet anywhere near my desk, so the office will forever have an extension cord running across the floor.
This will get even more interesting as Deb’s computer will, when it’s eventually set back up, be in a different room.
I’m quite pleased with my predictive powers. This was the first day for which I had not pre-posted a Sadie picture. DSL was activated last night, and I got back on this morning. I knew they wouldn’t take all the way until the 29th and called the actual timing perfectly.
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