#i channelled my inner margo madison
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my parence got a new fiber internet connection "for free" and although they're quite tech savvy they're also at an age now where people think they can take advantage of them 😤 so after the phone company installed the access point in the basement "for free", they then wanted to charge them 200€ for the in-house hookup (i.e. to run a cable from the basement to the terminal upstairs 👹)
so in my youthful hubris i instead decided to buy a 20m cable and do it myself, and it only took me *checks time* six hours and an insane amount of macgyvering to feed that delicate little thang through the old phone line hole in the ceiling
tbh there was a point in the afternoon when i was ripping apart my mom's floorboards where i would have been more than happy to give someone 200€ just to put me out of my misery... but in the end it all worked out. sometimes even simple tasks take time
#the problem was just that#optical fibers cant be bent#and all i had to work with#was a hole in the basement ceiling#through 30 cm of solid conked creat#because german houses are built like mayan temples for some reason#but no smooth cable tunnel to feed it through#so i had to come up with a way to pull it out the other side#without pulling on the cable itself#i finally ended up with a sort of 3 stage mechanism that consisted of a cable tunnel made of plastic straws (to remain in the hole)#a string on which to pull the cable into the tunnel after it had been placed#and a kind of outer shell that connected everything#and that part took me an entire afternoon#it was fun though ngl#i channelled my inner margo madison#lmaoooo#maybe i should have been an engineer#&#this actually happened last weekend#i just forgot it in my drafts
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