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Ol' reliable (lemmy.world)
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[–] 72 points 1 month ago (37 children)

WiFi has its problems but they don't include a tiny plastic tab costing $0.002 that inevitably breaks off, making the physical connection susceptible to fail at the tiniest touch of a butterfly's wing

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    Gotta get cables with a tab protector! They're lifesavers.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    the boot is certainly a nice thing to have!

    but we all keep our rj45s and crimpers handy right? we all live this low voltage life? Right?

    RIGHT??

    edit typo

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  • [–] 50 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Orange-white orange green-white blue blue-white green brown-white brown

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    I remember trying to terminate some Cat5e in uni. I don't think a single one of the cables I made up were able to do gigabit... actually I don't think a single one was able to do 100 megabit. I'm colourblind so ordering the wires correctly was essentially impossible, but all of us involved were fucking up in various ways...

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Personally, I prefer the ones that don’t kill my fingers, or none at all

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    How do they review reboot switches?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Thanks.

    Also thanks on deciphering what I meant. Stupid swipe keyboard. Saves a lot of time, but also makes a lot of mistakes.

    LOL, that's a really bad place to put a reset button.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I actively despise those things. When they’re the full boot they tend to be too tough. When they’re the tiny little things they do almost nothing. Plus the tabs will still break anyways eventually.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Stop messing with them. You don't need to keep putting them in and out. Also, it's easy to replace them with a $30 kit.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    "easy"

    Easy my ass, somehow managed to make everything like I should at uni when we were taught these and still connection didn't happen on tester. Even our prof was baffled after we redid the process with her watching and it still failed. xD

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Some of those old testers were bullshit IMO. The one we had for our CCNA class, half the time it said the cable was bad, it would work just fine, full speed, no drama.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    I currently have one that doesn't click, and during gaming sessions it will get hot and pop out just enough to disconnect me. I have no idea why I haven't replaced it yet.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Second reminder to replace the blue miscreant.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    It's actually yellow for some reason. I am in bed now but I am absolutely not clicking on 3 of the replies so they don't clear from my notifications until I replace it.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)
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