On Monday 20 February 2006 23:52, Dan Langille wrote: > On 20 Feb 2006 at 22:41, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Thanks to the kind guy who is renting me my current "vacation" hide > > away in sunny southern Frence and a 45 meter ethernet cable that runs > > across the garden to his house, I am now on a DSL connection. > > Wow! How did you manage to get that?
Yes, interesting story. I am renting a vacation "house" for a month here in Juan-les-Pins. It is a very small house that I suspect was previously a fishermans place since it is about 50 meters from the bay. Anyway, the owner lives next door in a villa (nice). He was previously a Mac dealer and an AutoCAD distributor. As one might expect he has an Internet connection in his house that he distributes to a number of machines via the electric wires and by a WiFi. The WiFi is not strong enough to cross the wall between the properties, so he got a 40 meter cat 6 ethernet cable (the rest of a spool) from his ex-colleges who added the plugs, and that plus one of the electrical modems his kids is not using put me in business. It is sort of a model of modern communications magic -- a 45 meter ether net cable plugged into an apparatus that plugs into the wall sending the TCP/IP packets over the electrical wiring (235 Volts) then somewhere else in the house there is a master apparatus that is plugged into the wall to take the signal off the electrical current, and passes it via ethernet cable to a France Telecom ADSL modem, and I am connected ... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
