CaliGirl
Getting comfortable
I kept complaining though social media about the two months and they finally sent someone out to look (so they said). None of us could be there to meet the person or see that they actually showed up. But I got an auto call that everything is fixed, but of course it is not working still. Hard to really tell how things go with these cable companies. Guy on the phone said there is a node out in the area. The guy two houses down has working everything. Guy on phone has no idea if they fixed the broken cable.
Definitely want to do the conduit idea this summer when the forest dries. It will be a long stretch of rugged, rock filled steep terrain but doesn't need to be perfect. Rake off the forest floor, digg a trench, lay conduit with a string inside (i like the vacuum trick). Then I call them out again when I can be there and ask them to restring the coax through the conduit? I can do that part myself but I don't think they allow it. There are stickers on the side of the cable box by house that say you can touch anything upstream. And they keep the cable box locked on the side of the house so I can change how many cable splits and they control where those will go in the house. They are probably going to find out that I split one of them to get my cable box where I wanted last summer : )
It would also be nice to have the conduit for stringing a cat line to the driveway to add an IP camera covering the driveway from a tall tree. That was my next project. Except I was going to be lazy and wasn't planing on burying it. Now I know why I need to.
There is actually an old conduit from the small house to the big house already. No idea if it is clogged up or working ok but I did notice it. Maybe string the cable to the little place, down the side of the house and into that conduit. I'll try the vacuum trick once the snow melts and see if I get any movement. There is so much snow and mud that things get damaged easily on the ground, especially plastic pipes.
Here is a recent storm pic from the neighbor down the way of some trees topping on a side road, not our road.
A few thousand feet higher up from us
Definitely want to do the conduit idea this summer when the forest dries. It will be a long stretch of rugged, rock filled steep terrain but doesn't need to be perfect. Rake off the forest floor, digg a trench, lay conduit with a string inside (i like the vacuum trick). Then I call them out again when I can be there and ask them to restring the coax through the conduit? I can do that part myself but I don't think they allow it. There are stickers on the side of the cable box by house that say you can touch anything upstream. And they keep the cable box locked on the side of the house so I can change how many cable splits and they control where those will go in the house. They are probably going to find out that I split one of them to get my cable box where I wanted last summer : )
It would also be nice to have the conduit for stringing a cat line to the driveway to add an IP camera covering the driveway from a tall tree. That was my next project. Except I was going to be lazy and wasn't planing on burying it. Now I know why I need to.
There is actually an old conduit from the small house to the big house already. No idea if it is clogged up or working ok but I did notice it. Maybe string the cable to the little place, down the side of the house and into that conduit. I'll try the vacuum trick once the snow melts and see if I get any movement. There is so much snow and mud that things get damaged easily on the ground, especially plastic pipes.
Here is a recent storm pic from the neighbor down the way of some trees topping on a side road, not our road.
A few thousand feet higher up from us
