$200 Cable Run
Problem
Yeah! lol 🤣 Problem of motivation to do your job.
That will be $200 for me to run that cable.
Recently I moved from an apartment to a house sight unseen. My partner tracked down the place and worked everything out, first time seeing it is when I arrived moving truck packed to the brim.
The move happened mid week so our internet needed to be active for the day we moved. We booked the service appointment and my partner was there for the install, and all should be good.
My list:
- Put the router anywhere in the basement
- Bridge one port on the router
- Disable WiFi (if there is time)
The install technician called multiple times with serious attitude telling me it will be at least $200 to run the cable, and there is no way to put the router in the basement.
My response:
Was there service for your carrier prior to me moving in? Place the router there in the easiest place for you, no cables to run, connect it and leave. I will run the service to the basement myself.
I was met with a scoff and the technician speaking down to me "You... You're going to run the cable?"
Solution
No cable No cost
The router was dropped in a pile, with 30ft of cable coiled up, poking out from under a blank electrical box cover, in a 2nd floor bedroom. Oo0o0oOkkay interesting choice.
pokes head out window, nope, no cables run up the house or from the roof. Must be coming from the basement 😒 where I wanted my connection placed originally.
Welp! this is a job for the handy dandy signal tracer 🛠
Low an behold! the connections are coming from the basement... Who could have guessed...
Split the line downstairs and a few simple butt connectors. TaDa✨ we have full line speed for dual pots 🥳 a whole whopping 56 Kbps / per line giving me a whole 112 Kbps 🐎 what will I do with that massive 100 Mbps of bandwidth... after coming from a 1 gig symmetric fiber connection 😑. Feel the pain | love the pain