It’s been a while since I posted here, mainly because things have been manic at home and at work. Things seem to be settling down again though.
One of the things that’s been happening at the Wiley household is that we’ve had decorators in to prepare the spare bedroom for our new arrival. The date we’ve been given is May 11th and we’ve finally come up with a boy’s name. So if it’s a boy he will be Isaac James, and a girl, she will be Eva Mai.
With the decorators in we’ve had to move the PC and desk to our garden room downstairs but we’ve left the DSL router and server laptop in the room and asked the decorator to work around it. This he has done but there has been some downtime. Unfortunately it occurred whilst we were aware and I wasn’t able to rectify it until we got back, so it looks like 4 days were lost. However, I don’t think it was down to anything the decorator did.
I’ve also been working out how to bring the DSL from the phone point in the bedroom down to the garden room. There are plenty of phone sockets in the garden room, but these are connected to a now disconnected second phone line. What I’ve done is snipped the second phone line at the back of the house where it goes under the soffits and fed this into the air grill of the bedroom and joined it to some internal cable that runs into the phone socket. At the moment it doesn’t work but I think that this is because I need to put a splitter on the phone sockets downstairs. I’ll try this tonight and see how I get on.
It seems quite an odd arrangement as the DSL is on a different wire pair than the phones. Don’t know why BT installed it this way as I thought the point of DSL was that it could all run over the same pair.