My wife has a former boss, an arts administrator, that is/was married to an engineer. At the time I met them, they were civil to each other, but essentially separated. For financial reasons, he lived in the basement instead of in his own apartment. It was kind of sad, but the joke around our house (being an arts administrator/engineer couple) is that if I don’t watch my step, I’ll find myself in the basement. Up until now, we haven’t had a basement, so it was a hollow threat.
But now we do. And here I am, in the basement.
Actually, it’s just my computer that moved to the basement to make room in the guest room… for guests. So if anyone wants to stay over, they don’t have to sleep under a computer desk.
I had to wire up a phone line. The line that was in this room crumbled to dust in my hands, and turned out not to be live anyway. I wandered around with a flashlight trying to make sense of the serpentine maze of telephone wires crisscrossing the basement ceiling. I found what may or may not be the nexus of phone wiring in our house. If it is, it’s a piss poor one. Add another task to the 2 page home improvement list: straighten out the phone wires.
I’ll get right on that… probably around 2015.
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I have several thousand feet of Cat 5 cable if you want really nice phone cable. And if you want to wire a network (very second millennium) it’s good for that too.
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We have two computers, and I was thinking of doing a wireless network. The other’s a laptop, so it would be nice for it to be as portable as possible.
I’ll consider the CAT5 for the phone stuff, should I get to that stage. Does CAT5 have twisted pairs inside? I’ve never looked.
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Cat 5 has 4 twisted pairs (with 5 twists per linear foot, thus Category 5)
So you can run two “enhanced” phone lines or four regular phone lines.
Dear younger me,
It is now 2016. I still haven’t fixed the phone wires. But we don’t have a landline, so… little motivation anymore.
Love,
Older You