Chap. 7: Even More Progress

    Well, the day has finally come. The equipment has all arrived at A-I in Watertown and awaiting pick up. My stepfather is out of town until Monday and so we will have to get the equipment on Tuesday. Since last week, I have got the last of the connections to and from the new modem, that was provided by CenturyLink, done and ready to be used. I also did some cable rearranging to make everything look neater and out of the way. We have called Qwest, the providers, and hopefully, they will come out finish up with our telephone lines and have us switched over by the middle of the week. After that's done, the big job of setting up equipment, testing and settling connections begins. 

Chap. 6: Some Progress

Hello, it has been some time since the last update to this blog. With family vacations and life getting in the way, I do apologize for the lack of updates. But now I'm back and have made a bit of progress since the last post. Some substantial while others are menial. Here is a quick rundown of what has been done and what to come next. 

•     All of the equipment listed in the previous post has been ordered and currently, about 1/3 of the items have arrived at A-I Computers of Watertown, SD. Some items are on backorder but hopefully, we will have everything by either the end of this week or early next week.
•    We have been getting areas where items and equipment will go prepared and ready for when the time comes for installation.
•     In the meantime, I have been running power cable for the new modem, which took a while.
• I have also bought and hooked up the new landline phones in our house and the other house.
• My stepfather and I have been looking into what type of security camera to order and have started narrowing down our list and hope to have them order and shipped by the end of the week.

I hope to start working on getting equipment and cameras set up in the very near future and that will be where the real fun begins.