The first paragraph sounds familiar. Liz complained about the black cable
snaking along the landing -- even though she finally got email and remote
printer access out of it -- because it was "ugly black" RG58, as she put
it. She wasn't at all impressed with a bright blue AUI drop cable paired
with bright yellow thick ethernet. I just thought she'd be pleased with
something prettier...
I know the problem all to well. They just have no sense of humor on such
things. I moved all of my equipment to mobile homes I use for office and
storage. 4 now soon to be 7 all sandwiched together. Now I get complaints
that I am never down at the house, but when I bring things down there to
work on they are in the way. Now that the kids are off to college I plan to
take over one of the bedrooms and put a system in there. I even have a 4
inch conduit running the 350 feet from the office to the house. It is
buried in the same trench as the power, phone, water, and sewer feed to the
office. It has been there for 4 years and I still have not run the coax
down to the house.
Dan