[MLB-WIRELESS] From Slashdot

[Micheal Hall]

When I was working as a sysadmin, we had this little problem about how to
get the network to the buildings across the road. We had a wireless solution
running, but it didn't work over summer due to the trees having leaves. We
finally convinced the purse string holders to pay for a trench under the
road, but that only got us to one of the buildings. To get to the others(3
more, with residential houses inbetween) we were looking at running wires up
with the power cables. We asked our telco consultant(an ex tel$tra
engineer), and his reply was "Nah mate don't worry about it, I park the van
out the front, chuck on me old telstra shirt and we'll push it down through
the pits."

It worked, and is still working currently :)

Moral to this story - find yourself a ex telstra engineer who know how to
lay the stuff propery, then use black cables ;)

Micheal

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Langford" <allanlangford at yahoo.com>
To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] From Slashdot


> Its agenst the law to even put a cable over the fence
> to your next door neighbour! even if both of you agree
> unless your austel licensed even then thay can still
> screw you around its basicly an old law to stop people
> from running there own utility cables in the days when
> there was only telecom! and after seeing how telstra
> runs cables draped over electric fences and thru the
> grass you have to wonder who should be outlawed! (i
> was driven a tractor at the time and it took me an
> hour to unravel about 1km of 4strand copper from the
> slasher!
>
> -- Drew <drish at bigpond.net.au> wrote: > i actually
> read a newsgroup thread a few days ago
> > about a guy in oz who did
> > a commando ethernet laying mission through his
> > neighbors backyards with a V
> > cutter to he could network with his friend on the
> > other side of the block.
> > then someone else wanted in, so they ran it through
> > a drainage tube and up a
> > telephone pole, across the street, and back down
> > again. said it was
> > operational for months until a utility worker cut
> > the line. crazy.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sam Elliott" <s_elliott79 at hotmail.com>
> > To: <melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:42 AM
> > Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] From Slashdot
> >
> >
> > > Was reading this article, I wonder what the Oz
> > Telco's and the Government
> > > would think if we started digging up our
> > neighbourhoods!!!!
> > >
> > > http://www.acc.umu.se/~tfytbk/mattgrand/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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