If you ever return to the wet coast, you can always get a job with us installing camera’s on all the buses — it’s not bad at $36/hour and it’s an exempt job (no union affiliation). These guys are also the “secret squirrels” of the department — that’s why they’re exempt. You’d fit right in Mon!

Ya know this whole thing came about because I wanted to yell at Bell for all the line noise. I figured if the problem was in the house they were going to charge me near to $100/hr to slap something together (much like the original wiring photos where they installed a second line) and it was STILL going to work poorly and I’d be a few hundred lighter for the trouble.

I look upon these projects as an educational experience. I have a basic understanding of something going in but learn more as I go, as an added bonus I have confidence in the system from that point forward as I know there were not any shortcuts taken.

What shocked the hell out of me was the price of that hardware from local suppliers!

I went to price a hub/block and got $89 as a price, the “all in one” distribution hubs from Rona and Home Despot were in the neighborhood of $150 (almost exactly like the one I ended up using, except mine cost $20 shipped).

Same with the DSL splitter, I was told it was a “special order” part, and I could have one for $100. What a bargain (not), again obtained for in the neighborhood of $20 shipped.

Now that I’m tallying things up I guess I really should close out that project, and itemize the costs.

Blowing a gasket? Nah… (hehe, should have heard the profanity echoing from the basement while I was working on this.. it’s good to vent now and again).

Pretty good. I guess we can assume that the problem was largely due to the old wiring.

That said, I’ve got the line statistics from the modem and they don’t seem “great’ according to some quick online reading, I’ll hold off for professional interpretation if someone is more familiar with these things and the “norm”.

09:31:50 (since last boot) xDSL linestate up (downstream: 13003 kbit/s, upstream: 917 kbit/s; output Power Down: 22.5 dBm, Up: 12.0 dBm; line Attenuation Down: 40.5 dB, Up: 22.0 dB; snr Margin Down: 6.5 dB, Up: 7.5 dB)

Dad: Ayup. I happen to think it looks darn perty.

Read my lips…No more cable.

-GRIN-

Anytime is fine over here, we can do it on a weekday evening or just wait until the weekend. Does any time work best for you?

BTW … I picked up the parts for your AC ‘service’ receptacle, and I can hook that up for you whenever you like. Or, if you’re so tired of looking at that board, it can keep