by Sykes25 » Mon Dec 07, 2009 1:37 pm
Actually, I was VERY grateful.
I was unloading about 6 bins as well as our 7 foot tree. After everything was down, I decided to take a ratchet wrench to tighten a loose bolt so the door would close properly. First half turn and BAM, the whole mechanism snapped back after the bolt broke. Had my wife or I leaned hard on that side of the stairs while going up or down, it could have snapped with us on it and a broken leg and good 5-6 foot fall would have been in order. Glad it happened while I was "fixing" it.
The Ethernet cable runs from my office/son's bedroom via about 40-50 feet of cable from the dedicated coax cable fed from the building's garage. Ethernet runs along the crown molding on the floor and up to the attic, entering the space between where the door and mechanism meet. Hits the wireless box in the attic and come back down to hard-line the desktop.
I have to keep my wireless in my attic as my condo runs along side and on top of a hydraulic based elevator shaft. With the router in the attic, I have full house coverage and coverage into the courtyard. When it is anywhere else, signal drops when somebody goes up and down in the elevator or when the microwave turns on in the kitchen.
With the advanced wiring I did on this setup 6 years ago, it will not be a 10 minute fix. I might get it done on Thursday if my 100 feet of wires arrive from Newegg by then as I will be off from work to play geek-squad.