Fiber was connected to the barn at the end of July, Stephen pulled the LAN cables last week, and Tod activated the network at 555 yesterday. This milestone makes the house ready to live in, as far as I am concerned. We might not have hot water yet, but we can Google for work-arounds.
Tod’s is not the type of person to plug in a router, accept the defaults, and call it done. He spent days designing the system, building firewall rules and other configurations, and testing everything.
Then he got into the back pantry, hung a shelf for the router and AP, wall mounted the switch so that we can see the blinkenlights, and started terminating Ethernet cables. By yesterday afternoon, we had working WiFi in the house.
Our SSID is nakanodai which was the name of the old kominka. The password is a tribute to the WiFi password we have used for twenty years. It’s an ungrammatical phrase, still “all lowercase with spaces between the words.”
When you visit, I’ll let you know the password so you can connect.
