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The things you find when you go looking... (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/sysadmin@lemmy.world
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So that's why a 2 systems were getting crappy speeds. Yes, 2. It had been used only to split a single drop from another switch between two systems.

New drop, happy clients.

Some stuff here is museum material.

A disconnected TP-Link SF1024 network switch, propped up on a small cardboard box.
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I wonder if it would have been the same cost to do an outdoor fiber run.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Probably not, the costs were essentially just sticking ethernet ports on the walls next to the phone ports and rewiring the existing wires to those ports. And back when this was done (whenever we got DSL, around 2005 maybe?) fiber tech was probably prohibitively expensive. I haven’t looked up how much fiber modems cost but it would probably be more expensive even today.

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