Comments | alierak: fish tape?

alierak

fish tape?

Jan 27, 2002 18:09

I woke up this morning planning to get up in the attic and string cat5 cable around the house (Alex brought home a big spool of the stuff and some jacks, but he's too large to get into the attic) but he says no, we need to get a "fish tape" before trying to pull cables down thru the walls. I'm a little impatient -- just seeing the cable and jacks ( Read more... )

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lite January 27 2002, 16:03:34 UTC

I always watch the Superbowl. Not that I care who wins (not since the Jim Kelly days), but because the commercials are kewl :)

kareila January 27 2002, 18:37:57 UTC

glad to know that I'm not the only one Alex is driving crazy...

I bet you're only going to watch the Super Bowl because I'm planning to watch it. :)

Busy phone jacks rhayden January 27 2002, 20:22:18 UTC

When I got DSL at my house, my dad went out and purchased some little attachments called filters. They plug into the phone jack, and then the DSL modem plugs into the filter. Scrubs out line noise fairly well. My guess is that they're relatively easy to find and they should only cost one or two bucks. (Again, that's a guess)

Just thought I'd share my solution. :)

Re: Busy phone jacks kareila January 27 2002, 20:49:17 UTC

No, the problem isn't lack of filters (we have plenty), the problem (as I recall him describing it to me) is that part of the house wiring is in a loop that is acting as a receiver for a radio station about a mile away. So the phone jacks in one half of the house are so noisy as to be useless for anything.

Re: Busy phone jacks rhayden January 27 2002, 20:52:33 UTC

Oooo, ack. Aye, that -would- make for messy line noise. Never mind then. :)