Ssreek
Adept
That's how it was up until around July. Then they came in, ripped everything out, redid the cable management to where now it's not a complete mess:
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Though the cover still doesn't close or lock.
I'm somewhat lucky that my immediate neighbours are wealthy people (one of them had dedicated weekend roadtrip cars back in the 90s, separate from their daily drivers) even though I live very close to a graveyard, a slum area and an open nala.
One of them commissioned Airtel to set up that pole in the photo some years ago at the corner of their house, so on one side I have that. One of the other neighbours has an Excitel distribution box on their property so I have the main home internet connection from there for the last couple of decades (our first plan with Excitel was 64kbps for Rs 500 a month in 2003).
For backup, I have Jio's 4G dongle, this is used for home automation during power cuts so that nothing breaks. (I was in the process of transitioning away from eWeLink to a purely self-hosted setup but a reddit post caused to me to stop and rethink it all and I still haven't figured it out — who would maintain the home automation system if I were to die? I need a solution that would work just as reliably as the physical switch so that if it were to go bad and I'm not around, it's only a matter of replacing the smart switch with a regular switch to get things working again. But that's an entirely different discussion).
For me the black optic cable comes till home and then split/spliced to that yellow cable. Whatever outside that is fixed to the tree is just a black thin box.
You mean to say you are sharing/hacking your wealthy neighbours' wifi or just using dongle for backup?
I never thought of owning a 4g dongle bcz nowadays speed is way less. My office gave an airtel dongle and it's crap. Maybe 5g dongles can save the day if cheaper.
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