Although it took a few weeks, we finally have Internet service. We get 2Mbps broadband service via DSL, which works quite nicely. Internet service is cheap and easy to get in the apartments here at IISc. It’s quite a contrast to the near absence of broadband Internet at home in Lyme.
The telephone man came one day with his assistants. The telephone and cable lines enter the house in the living room, but I really wanted the Internet to arrive in the back bedroom, where I would place my Wi-Fi router. No problem, they said.
Ten minutes later I saw a cable dangling outside the back bedroom window. They were on the roof – which is flat and which we use frequently because it has the clothesline – and they had cut a splice into the telephone wire and run a new cable across the roof and down the outside to the window. Below, I show the job after adding some electrical tape over the bare copper; their motus operandi seems to be to leave the copper splices open to the elements.
Indeed, this is how all the telephone, Internet, and cable television wiring works; a jumble of ad hoc wires strung across the roof, dangling down the walls and into various apartment windows. Below, Andy cuts some extraneous wire off the tangle – he loves to play with wiring.
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David Kotz 