Yesterday one of my clients had a minor phone outage. Well, maybe not so minor. Some contractors doing some tunneling to install some new phone cables to the new building next door managed to kill the cable coming into their offices. This would have been fine, except that not only could Telstra not work out how to get the cable into their offices, they could not even get it into the pit at the other end since the splice to the main cable was hidden under concrete.

Right now they have a half inch cable crossing their garden and winding the way down the driveway into the carpark and attaching to the buildings main phone patch panel. This is not permament by any stretch of the imagination, but right now it is all that they can do until some major works are done to place a new cable path into the office. It was a reall stuff up!

Coming home from Pymble today I tried coming via the M5, and found that it probably saved 5-10 minutes… Only because it was after hours. Getting there during peak hour is definitely faster via the M7… So in future I just need to think which will be the best based on traffic volumes, and based on the cost… Hmm…