I did a project in rural Alaska wherin we would travel to remote villages and connect the local clinic to the internet (Cisco 2600 connected to satellite T1) and then do a wireless bridge shot to the local village office to provide access (Aironet!!) We did a lot of the project in the winter as it was sometime easier to travel to the sites because we could go by snowmobile instead of boat. Unsuprisingly, come spring we had a rash of reported outages as foliage that was not there in the winter had budded and blocked our signal. One site in particular had shown not a degradation of service, but a hard down. I had to take a jet to Fairbanks, transfer to a small plane to get to Bettles and then went by boat to site. As we hiked into the village to check the site, we noticed that someone had done some renovation work on the village office building and had started by taking a chainsaw and cutting off one side of the building before constructing a new "wing". When we found the discaded wall, we lifted it up and found the yagi antenna was still screwed to the unistrut, just as we left it, but the coax cable had been severed during the demo phase. Layer 1, indeed. Also in these pre-cloud management days, if i were in a remote site and had no one on the far end to assist, i found if I was not quite sure about the change i were about to make i would tell the far end router to reboot in 5 minutes, make my change, and then if it were successful cancel the reboot. If not i had 3 minutes and some change to wait for another chance. I heart Meraki
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