It was a bit like a Laurel and Hardy comedy. Charlie got back on the ladder and poked his head into the overhead. Ten feet away the security guys were on their own ladders, watching Charlie to make sure he didn't implant some devilish James Bond device. But once we got up there ... surprise! Laying up in the ceiling was a neat coil of about 100 feet of "extra" co-ax cable -- more than enough to put the techs at the end of the bus over the limit for proper distance/signal functionality. Obviously the DoD's electrical team had never been trained in laying network coaxial cable and was unaware of the issues involved. After we removed the extra cable (and rerouted the co-ax away from an elevator power line) everything worked fine.

If you think that the government knows best, you are living in a fool's paradise.