On 8/31/06, Jake Anderson wrote: > > Quick suggestion. > The wire they cut wasn't in fact for internet sharing. > It was so you and the guy next door could kill each other playing quake > 3 arena. > Comcast now owes you a new cable and a *very* humble apology. Well, I AM the guy next door. :) In fact, I run a security camera, alarm status, and a few other things over that pipe too, but they didn't bother to ask about that before hacking my nice outdoor rated cable into multiple pieces. According to yesterday's meeting, they will be back today, in the form of a "supervisor", with a replacement cable, and we will then discuss my somewhat unusual living arraingement vs their rulebook, and see if we can come to some reasonable compromise. They also told me that they do not permit ANY wire between the two houses. This point will be discussed, because I absolutely will be running multiple hardlines and control cables between the houses, since my planned radio tower will be mounted to the other house. On the plus side, I now have the wireless connection running, and am getting roughly 3 megabits throughput, which is very acceptable. How I did this: I have a linksys 54G router capable of running DD WRT, so I downloaded that, and reflashed the router using the DD-WRT file. I moved that router over to the office, it was originally at home. I put the older router at home, where their box is, and connected it, and the one PC there, to the comcast box. The tricky part is setting up the wireless router at the office in bridge mode, which is covered in a doc that you'll find under the wikipedia link for DD-WRT, or at http://dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge The new firmware is MUCH nicer than the linksys version, and among other things it allows you to up the transmit power from 25mW to something like 250mW. I do now have a VERY solid link between the houses... It also allows you to set up a hotspot, which might be interesting. Alternately > You and your neighbour both being responsible computer geeks use that > cable to store backup data for the other. (off site backup) the wanton > destruction of your property has caused irreparable damage to your > business as it corrupted the backups you depend on just when you > happened to need it. Actually I do make backups on the home machine, and an offsite CVS server. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist