Re: Hello!!!

[ABLE1 <somewhere@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/23/2021 9:10 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 8/23/2021 3:32 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 8/23/2021 7:55 AM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>> Hello!!
>>>
>>> Did anybody hear that????
>>
>> Well by golly!!  Somebody was actually listening to
>> the break in the SILENCE!!!  I am impressed!!!
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>> Anyone have anything new to report or discuss??  I will lead off!!!
>>
>> I for one will be installing my 2nd ever in 32 years a Fiber Optic
>> cable pull for a Network run on Wednesday!!!!
>>
>> It is to replace a CAT5e cable run underground between two barns for
>> a WiFi connect to allow a horse trainer to send out video of her
>> horse training to others.  YippKiAaaaa!!!
>>
>> The install was about 3 months ago and since have lost 4 data switches
>> to lightning storms passing through.  I have learned a big lesson NOT to
>> do that ever again!!  My whoops and fault!!!
>>
>> Glad to see that you's guy are still checking in here to hear what be
>> going on!!
>>
>> BTW nobody mentioned my spelling error!!!  Thanks for that!!   :-)
>>
>> Later,
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>
>
> My most interesting experience with fiber was at a facility in Mexico. I
> installed a DVR on both sides of the road for a facility.  They had a
> fiber pair under the road connecting both facilities.  Everyday in the
> afternoon access to the DVR on the opposite side of the road would get
> slow and cludgy.  I thought maybe it was a congested network, but I
> could always access the DVR on the same side of the road just fine, AND
> THEY HAD FIBER across the road.  One day I took a look at the fiber
> translator to discover it was only 10Mbps.  They had a massive
> bottleneck right in the middle of their network at what should have been
> the fastest link.   It took me almost a year to get them to upgrade
> their fiber link.  They had spent (by the time it was done) almost $50K
> with me, but they baulked at spending a few hundred bucks to actually
> use their fiber link at any reasonable capacity.


Yes, it amazing how difficult it is for some people to understand the
simple problem.

Les