My trip to Wiliston, sponsored by Airgas.
Trip #1 is here.



Thursday, September 15, 2005.
08:00 leave home.
10:55 Arrive in Williston.
11:00 Lunch at Ponderosa
11:30 Arrive at Store.
I spent a few hours waiting for corporate to reconfigure our router which had allegedly already been reconfigured.
I went to Staples and bought a USR 56K* V.92 External Faxmodem.
The Modem had a DB25-Female connector and I needed DB9-Male.
I went back to Staples, they did not have a converter.
A helpful clerk directed me to the South Burlington Radio Shack about 4 miles away.
Drove to Radio Shack and bought converter.
Returned to store and connected modem to Fax line to allow corporate IT to dial into router.
The modem answered when corporate dialed in, but they could not connect.
Probably the wrong converter.
Carried router back to old office and connected it to a PC via Hyperterm.
Corporate connected via PCAnywhere and made changes.
14:00 Verified that DSL still worked.
14:40 Attached reconfigured router, success.
15:00 started adding phone jacks to network room.

Fax/DSL line comes in on pins 1 and 2.
I sent:
3 and 4 to one RJ11 jack
5 and 6 to another RJ11 jack.
When everything seemd to be wired correctly, I added the clips to connect:
1 to 3 and 5
2 to 4 and 6

But...

The first time I punched down #6, I chewed through the wire which goes to #3.
I learned this the hard way the next morning when the network was no longer working.

Originally, the Fax line came in at #1 and went out at #5.
I ran a pair of wires from #1 to RJ11 jacks #2 and #3.
Then I placed a wall mount DSL filter on #3.
I plugged a Y adapter into #3 and sent one output to #4 an Outdoor Phone Wiring Block - White
and the other output to #8 a USR 56K* V.92 External Faxmodem.
I took the pair of wires which had run from #1 to #5 and pulled them out of #1.
I then attached them to #4.
I attached #2 to #6, a Westell DSL Modem with a 1' telco cable.
I attached #6 to #7 with a 1' yellow Cat-5 cable (not shown).
I attached #7 to #9, a 3Com switch with a 3' yellow Cat-5 cable (shown).
I attahced the other 15 ports in switch #9 to the patch panel #10.
I left the Modem, #8, powered off, but ready to use for network debugging if the right DB9-F to DB25-F adaptor is procured.
Then I began on the printers.

Here, the left printer is all connected and preparation has been made for another printer to be added.
I used cable ties to secure a Jetdirect box to the underside of the shelf.
I ran a Cat-5 cable from the network drop to the Jetdirect.
I plugged in a wall-wart and connected it to the Jetdirect.
I attached the DB25-Male end of a IEEE-1284 parallel printer cable to the Jetdirect.
On the way home I stopped at Quechee Gorge.

The view from the bridge.

The bridge.

And another view of the bridge.