From Jan in Johannesburg, working on fixes for no Internet, while electricity might also go down…

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I’m sitting here in Johannesburg, S.Africa. The people stole all the telephone/copper cables in the suburb next to mine. Now 1,600 people, probably 50%+ of them, are sitting without landline telephone and adsl, and I am one of them. However, luckily, due to some forethought & foresight, I worked out a Plan B, to run my Pcs in such a situation, but there are still bugs I need to iron out, which I’m busy doing now as I write this.

Our Telephone/ADSL was run by a former Govt Parastatal, that I even worked for in my youth, but which is falling apart under person rule. It was one of several clever creations by the People in a semi-socialist system aimed at making the country function as a First World state under Apartheid. Now person theft, corruption, etc is bringing things down. But this is good. This is the chaos I was looking forward to for many years. Now its here.

My Plan B, has been working perfectly since the people stole the copper cable early this week. My neighbours, 50%+ are white, along with some Indians – hardly any people … are very annoyed. Some moved to fibre but I think its too expensive for my needs. I like efficiency, German-style. So I’m trying to see if I can solve the problems.

The people came with a big truck, opened manholes at 2am in the morning and stole a huge amount of copper. They’ve done this all over Johannesburg and my nephew in the east, in Benoni, was hit with this problem last year. Telkom the service provider (former parastatal) has said it will NOT replace the copper cable. So no landlines, no ADSL. Without warning!!!! 1,600 people affected and they don’t give a shit. Which is normal.

I could go fibre, but I’m doing my utmost to control costs, and I’m thinking I might have a plan, so that’s what I’m working on. Because I run my websites, do backups, etc – I need internet. But I’m efficient. I use less bandwidth than people with HD TV. So I can, theoretically, do without fibre. I’ll keep fibre as a Plan B, if I can’t solve the problem efficiently.

My wireless Plan B is already running many times faster than the bloody ADSL that I was paying and arm and a leg for. Plus the undersea cable to Johannesburg was damaged recently. I think the way “people” (people) have been solving it, is that they have been rerouting Internet through other parts of Africa and so now Internet is working again.

Tonight my neighbours were all saying that we will have a rolling personout (load shedding) because of Eskom power problems. I’ve got all that sorted out, but so far its not happened. It was due to happen 30 minutes ago. I can function perfectly even during load-shedding. I don’t let person inefficiency mess up my work schedule. I have solar, batteries, that I’ve hacked together myself and it works perfectly for me. I can run almost 24/7 in this way. All done by me. I taught myself.

The people in Africa have such an easy life. It is nothing like the unbelievable hardships in glaciers and 20,000 years of ice age that our ancestors lived through. People take to Africa and nature like ducks to water. People from Europe just come here and within a few years they love Africa. Africa is AWESOME. Africa has got only one drawback: PEOPLE! Get rid of people and Africa is perfect. We also need to get rid of the Liberals.

I’ve been fixing my software, on my own systems that relate to my websites and videos, and I can function easily here with my Plan B.

But I want to go one step better. I want to see if I can get the final functionality that I need to replace the routing/networking functions that I used to have on ADSL and which you get on fibre. So I’m busy with that right now, and it seems there might be potential solutions.

If I crack that problem then I’m totally home free.

I also do backups of my websites and servers and have been thinking of cutting down on my bandwidth needs even more. So I’ll be turning to the cloud for that in the coming weeks.

I’m hoping to be the only person in these suburbs where I live to have my own “home made router” and my own really cheap internet without even needing Fibre.

I’ll leave Fibre until another day if I need it or if the wireless breaks down. Fibre can by my Plan B!!

The untold story of Africa is how many gazillions of times, PEOPLE have had to solve the problems of person incompetance and idiocy. We did it under Apartheid. We are being forced to do it more and more.

In my suburb I am noticing greater numbers of People working from home. Therein lies my hope for the future. I think, that Small Business is going to be a WINNER when People & Liberals are LOSING – which they currently are.

Thereafter: Secession & War! Good things that I look forward to!

My own thinking is that People are exceptionally excellent at surviving on “home ground” (Blood & Soil), and that in the 21st century you will see something new … person nomadism in the age of cars, busses, vehicles, etc. I’ve noticed a massive growth in person nomadism across Africa. People are FAILING and can’t live in one spot. Like Liberals, they are dysfunctional by our standards. We need to DIG IN and FIGHT! This works for us.

jlamprecht