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[DonDuracell]

About Guerilla infrastructure

We lived in a street where we had some through traffic and to slow the traffic down we asked the city if we could get a crosswalk painted on the street because then cars would slow down because they're expecting foot traffic. The answer of the city was no.
So on a Saturday night some neighbors (including myself) got together and painted it ourselves. For 10 years that crosswalk existed and worked perfectly and about three weeks ago a former neighbor got in touch with me and told me that someone had contacted the city to please refresh the paint of "our" crosswalk and even though the city had no crosswalk in their plans they checked it and repainted it. So it's now official. 😆

[vaggelisdogas]

At some point the main building will look like a villain HQ with a comic like tower with dishes all around. LTTU main arc has initiated 😂

[pitsnipe]

Your mention of wearing safety vests reminded me of a time when I was in the Navy where I spent a day roaming around the ship carrying clipboard occasionally stopping and looking at things. No one questioned me, no one asked what I was doing, everyone avoided even making eye contact. It was so funny. All based on a bet with my Chief that anyone with a clipboard is never questioned.

[mervstar]

I work for a retail chain in Bermuda, and the telecom providers here leave a lot to be desired in terms of connection stability and pricing. So Ubiquiti Gb+ wireless links on the rooftops of each building, multi-hop in some instances, with redundant links, all using OSPF for dynamic routing, to free us from our local telecom providers to provide intra-site connectivity has been the best decisions we've made here. Rock solid connections in all kinds of weather (even hurricanes), amazing speeds, and no more $2000+ monthly bill from our local telecoms. LTT, I say make your intra-site connection all in-house if you can when you expand to more buildings, you won't regret it.

[dragofand]

Luke might have a point. Had a friend who lived in an apartment. Every week they had landscapers come through to make sure the place was tidy. He planted some flowers he liked around the area early spring, then when they started to bloom the landscapers started taking care of them for him.

[Jmcgee]

3:28 Exactly this: a few years ago someone put cones in a parking lot near my house while practicing driving. They forgot to remove them. It took two weeks for those cones to disappear since everyone thought that parking spot was marked off for some reason.

[the_wiki]

I would look into directional boring. They run a long guided boring bit horizontally underground, so no trenching is needed. We had someone do this to run a conduit with a bundle of fiber between two buildings that are about 200m apart, separated by a busy 4-lane street. It was not exactly cheap, but not cost prohibitive, either.

[samiraperi]

"Look official" is 90% of social engineering.

[MrJordanSDean]

Serious suggestion now, but this is a good opportunity to actually get some off site backups. You have at worst a gigabit between the two buildings, and once you do the initial copy (might as well do at main HQ and get it moved across) you're not going to be backing up enough that you can't have it take longer than out of office hours. Considering the catastrophic data loss(es) you've dealt with, you NEED to have something in place.

[iaadsi]

Sewer fiber is a real thing, they use armored cable and pipeline robots to literally drag a fiber between two places. Toilet to toilet gigabit 😀

There's few companies that do it, most of them in the EU unfortunately.

[StefanR]

I'm curious if their ISP would consider their use case as against their TOS. I know in the US with Spectrum if you feed internet from one address into another they consider it a breach of TOS

[gingerman]

You would "think" a building complex like the one you are in would have conduit available between buildings. I guess they don't but it would be a great value to add.

[DutchGamingPieces]

In the Netherlands (and probably in whole of EU) we "shoot" the cable underground. Just look up Glasvezel kabel schieten FFTH. It is an video how they lay a cable under the road without opening the existing road. This could be a very nice solution.

[garci]

It's super easy to add connectors to raw fiber these days. The connectors are "field installable" / "mechanical connectors" and with maybe 100-150$ of gear you can terminate your own fibers without any need for fusion splicing. I work regularly with those. The connectors themselves would be just a few bucks each.

[GC-qevc]

Careful not to damage the armoured cable that some other office installed there before you! You wouldn't want to hit it while digging!

[annathomas]

Part of the issue is if you dig without a permit, you won’t know if you’re digging into water, power or gas lines, phone or cable lines even. Under the asphalt they’ve got a spider web of all these going on. Even if you dont “cut” them you could disturb or shift the asphalt in a way that causes cracks or something, especially when some of these pipes are so old and barely holding together. Infrastructure workers in Texas know you never dig into any ground without what is commonly called a “dig Tess” where a specially trained person comes out and sprays lots of Xs on the ground so you know what to stay away from. I think that’s what the one chick was commenting on but you either glazed over it or misinterpreted what she was saying

[Conbuilder]

I work for an MSP, we have an underground data center with LAN links to some of our clients. Having that direct connection on a vlan is really nice cause we have some automation setup where we can just swap the Vlans on our bench and have a direct connection to their network. It's great.

[JSTheAnonymousOne]

I recall comments on the other video talking about how your issue might be from having the dishes too low on the roof (causing one of the signals to get cut off). It's at least worth a shot to raise them a bit to see if that might help. Having the speeds decreased that far for something that expensive feels wrong and I want you guys to get the most out of it

[PeyotZET]

Arizonian here! I'm all for "guerilla infrastructure." Does your city have a service which will come out and set flags in the dirt for you to help avoid underground pipes and cables? I ask because Phoenix has such a service. I imagine yours might!

[GTFour]

You could “mole” the cable underground. Feasible in this situation. Approach the city and find out how you can legally do any of this though.