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my parence got a new fiber internet connection "for free" and although they're quite tech savvy they're also at an age now where people think they can take advantage of them 😤 so after the phone company installed the access point in the basement "for free", they then wanted to charge them 200€ for the in-house hookup (i.e. to run a cable from the basement to the terminal upstairs 👹)

so in my youthful hubris i instead decided to buy a 20m cable and do it myself, and it only took me *checks time* six hours and an insane amount of macgyvering to feed that delicate little thang through the old phone line hole in the ceiling

tbh there was a point in the afternoon when i was ripping apart my mom's floorboards where i would have been more than happy to give someone 200€ just to put me out of my misery... but in the end it all worked out. sometimes even simple tasks take time

#the problem was just that #optical fibers cant be bent #and all i had to work with #was a hole in the basement ceiling #through 30 cm of solid conked creat #because german houses are built like mayan temples for some reason #but no smooth cable tunnel to feed it through #so i had to come up with a way to pull it out the other side #without pulling on the cable itself #i finally ended up with a sort of 3 stage mechanism that consisted of a cable tunnel made of plastic straws (to remain in the hole)#a string on which to pull the cable into the tunnel after it had been placed #and a kind of outer shell that connected everything #and that part took me an entire afternoon #it was fun though ngl #i channelled my inner margo madison #lmaoooo #maybe i should have been an engineer #&#this actually happened last weekend #i just forgot it in my drafts

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