Subj : Re: Real Modem on VOIP?
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Bo Holt
Date : Thu Sep 10 2026 07:01 pm


-> I don't know what possessed the installer. Maybe he liked me. Maybe
-> he called BBSes. He brought telco wire up from the basement DMARC
-> through the garbage chute, then down the wall, over 2 door frames and
-> into my apartment through lath and plaster. Was there probably an
-> hour and a half, charged me the $75 only.
->
-> Luckily, I had a walk-in closet against the outside wall of the
-> apartment - I had room to put the BBS in there. I had to pull power
-> from the overhead light fixture with one of those outlets that
-> screwed into the light socket, but it all worked.

That wwas back when people still cared enough to do a decent job, too.
The last time (MANY years ago) I needed a cable jack installed in a new
house I was buying, all they did was run coax through the wall aand
stick a faceplate over it to LOOK like they did it correctly... smh...

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