AT&T project Lightspeed

Gary I had to LOL...there cannot be a guy under 40 that would even know what that little hole on the end of the bit was for. But you are right...the wire would usually break before it came back thru that hole.

Pete; You know one of our "magic" tricks. The chain would always fall around any hidden obstructions in the wall enabling you to get a string and then a wire thru.

Jim; The worse is when them guys drill a hole to the outside then "rope" the wire all the way around your house...putting little staples in your siding that will start to rust as soon as the installer leaves the yard.

john

Jim, kinda like them guys that work for Ford now, versus the guys that built the first Mustangs.......LMAO

Wrong, Karen had a new Mustang. First Ford product in my drive since a Granada, boy was that a POS.The pony ate too many oats and the Plymouth Grand Voyager@241,555 was ready for a life easier than pulling a CC or a Hobie.Have no complaints about the FoMoCo , well built and a blast to drive. No shakes rattles or glithes. We traded both in and bought a new Dodge Grand Caravan, big motor and tow bar.Lottsa of room , great gas mileage 24 mpg, four wheel disc,and traction control.
Had to be practical on this purchase, mid life crisis is over,time to get back to 53 again.........

Jbear
I know what you mean, it's the same all over. I work with some guys that take a lot of pride in what they do. Then there are guys that will say that's good enough it works. I preffer to look at a job and say I want to be willing to put my name on this job and let everyone know who did.

Boat doc
Good to see you posting, did you look at the 87 nauti topic was hoping you would post some info on that motor as it is believed to be a merc. Also the topic about buffalo BFN's motor what cam he can use check it out. The BFN motor is in the engine repair section I believe.

There absolutely nothing wrong with having pride in your work.

Gary
The notch backs were great cars, always wanted one. But finding one in good shape at a reasonable price not easy to do.

Jbear
I have an 86 Mustang GT with T-Tops.

I am torn between upgrades for the Air, restoration of the BFN, or restoring my mustang. I think the boats will win out.

Last evening I noticed two guys walking up to my house. I though I was about to be solicited by one of the religious groups noted for their door to door tactics. Seeing they were carrying clip boards rather than bibles I felt safer! Turns out they wanted me to convert but it was over to AT&T fiber optic service. The pitch of course is the speed of the fiber. I said no because I felt I'd been screwed enough through the years of Illinois Bell, Ameritech and then AT&T. With the door to door sales, it sounds like project Lightspeed isn't going over to big!! BTW, I through out the "Lightspeed" term at them and they were amazed that I knew something about the service.

Gary, John and I've forgotten our 3rd member phone employee,
I never remember ANY cable work in front of my house indicating fiber was strung. There has been alot of work going on with a rather large install of a enclosure about a mile from my house. Do they go from that with existing copper to my house? Wouldn't that really hurt the speed? So far I've been happy with my cable, phone and high speed internet.

Kurt,
Ok, now I remember you're the other CCfan/phone person!! No I'm not - just know enough to know the difference between "tip" and "ring"!

Kurt: How did you find this old thread? Can't believe ya missed out the first time around.

Wow...condition..out end..bridge tap....ain't heard them words in awhile. Find it hard to believe your service comes from a slc96. They were gone in Ohio 10 years ago. Can't believe anybody has a card left for them. They were incredably unreliable in Ohio. Worked at the IX Center doing big shows for awhile and we had 4 of those junkers in the baesment making our dt. Used to hope that one wouldn't go down during the Boat Show or the Car Show.

john

I've been pretty busy the last couple of nights so I've missed this. Pete from what I've been told and just to refresh I worked on the conditioning project almost 2yrs ago for 4 or 5 months. It is the existing copper from the "v rad" thats the box the fiber terminates at,to your house.You have to be within 3000 ft of the v rad and that means cable length not as "the crow flies". Your existing phone line still gets to your house the "old way" copper,pair gain or what some call slc96,or DPG fiber,but then the data,either tv or computer is injected at the v rad into the pair that goes to your house. Think of the conditioning as being say three wires spliced together. You don't want the signial going over that say second wire. If you just cut off that wire that little piece left there can act as an antenna and disrupt the signial. So to stop that you cut them all apart and reconnect just the two you need.
John we still have slc 96 here and can even think of 1 Fujitsu still working here.
Kurt, I can't wait either but even tho I'm in "town" I'm 5000 ft from the v rad so until they figure how to pair bond or use repeters,I'm out of luck. My area has been conditioned over a year ago,the v rads all in but in a town over 7 miles away there is a right away problem for the fiber ring so two towns with about 40,000 people are still waiting. Then about 2-3 weeks ago most of the help that was doing the conditioning were term employees and were layed off. Our contract is up June 27, we hear of sipps but they are just rumors.It's getting slow but we'll just have to wait and see. It would have been nice to get Verizon's deal from last spring,but the company has said "We are not Verizon" so there you go. I hope the brains of this country get the economy going so all of us here won't be saying, well at least I have a job.It seems to me since 9-11 that we have been just sputtering along.

Not to worry Kurt. I knew Pete had brought. Nice to see you weight in tho. Always like a little shop talk that I can understand.

john

jbear wrote: Not to worry Kurt. I knew Pete had brought. Nice to see you weight in tho. Always like a little shop talk that I can understand. john

Wow. Now I understand how Jbear feels when we get into an indepth engine conversation. This stuff is greek to me.    

One of my "repairs" done in the late 70's before I rebuilt and rewired my house was very concerning to me. No dial tone so the Bell repairman shows up. He went into my basement and in less than 5 minutes comes back up telling me he had found a problem with the junction and fixed it. I don't know why I went down to look at it but evidently my distrust with bell was already growing on me. Well, the "repair" involved him removing the two brass cartridges (sorry but I don't know what they are called) from the old porcelain "interface". I knew enough that these were not fuses but when blown during a lightning hit would short and shunt the lightning strike to ground. At least now, I did have a phone to call repair again. Another repairman was there within a hour and replaced the cartridges!!