Rewiring

17:25.56 - Sunday 14th October 2007   (Link to This Entry)

Preparing the new office took another minor step nearer completion today, as I removed the old 50p-from-Wilko plastic sockets and replaced them with a rather stylish brushed metal combination. I have four spots running through a dimmer, a double socket in the far corner of the room where the desk will be and a single just inside the door.

Turns out the back box on the double is far from level, but since the laminate floor is down we really have no urge to rip it out and fix it, besides, the desk will cover it.

I also took the opportunity to redirect the Cable TV line through a different wall. For a brief, scary moment I had no Internets at all but it turned out I hadn't tightened a connector collar enough. Rethreaded it and all was well. How do NTL Virgin Media too these things, anyway? That was a bit of hard work in itself.

So now I have wireless Internet again, though not wired, since the big machine is upstairs and there's no cable from there to the router. No matter - I can get by with Apache running locally on that one and Email on here, just as things were meant to be.