And now I will sing a traditional song of my people.

🟧⬜,🟧,🟩⬜,🟦,🟦⬜,🟩,🟫⬜,🟫.

If I have a PhD in WiFi, does that make me a wizard?

Had one. Somebody stole it at a lan, many years ago. Haven't bought another one, since, because I'm dumb.

What is one of these called?

I bought a cheap tool years ago and a few hundred feet of cat6 and some connectors and wall plates

ran my main AP off my own crimped cords for years without issue. speed tests always showed full speed

E-waste spyware spider

Buy them in spools.

Also for just cheap cat5, it might not actually faster than modern WiFi.

Cat 6 is what, $0.15 a foot? Plus maybe another $0.50 for the connectors and boots? That’s a 16 foot snake for $3.00.

for a short prefab patch cable to go from modem to router, it's actually a bit higher than what we pay.

i got 10m of cat 6 for 28pln(around $8) at my local store, and to overpower the router on the picture you probably only need cat 5e

There’s a few 10 packs of 6 foot cables on Amazon for around $18, that’s less than $2 each.

I was going to call bullshit on that timeline...but hot damn it's already been 25 years since cat6 arrived.

I did the same but cat6a like 5 years ago. Though mine was primarily to limit wireless packet snooping/attacks, especially for devices that never got wpa3 support, not speed. There's like 50-60 devices on my network and all but two were wireless...

Knocked a hole in the wall for my network cables in the 90s. My mum thought I could have, like, asked first. So fussy.

If something looks cool and flashy and has tons of "extra functions" I stay the fuck away from it because I know the target demographic and I know it's going to be shit in surprising ways.

Used to live in a 2 story house built in the 1900’s. It had plaster & lath walls. I ended up with 4 AP’s scattered about before we had decent WiFi coverage.

One of the worst things about those routers other than having generally poor coverage despite looking like a Crown of Thorns was that if you actually took advantage of the more advanced features like VLANs, port forwarding, static routes, FTP and all that stuff and set it up… It inevitably seemed that there was a 99% chance that a firmware update would not allow you to restore a backup of the router config on the updated device!

That happened a couple times, spent days getting everything set up only to find out the firmware update refused to load a config made with an older version. F that. Never used those routers again.

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

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.

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.

Even worse when it hits the power button

Just get repair clips, no need to cut the cable and re-crimp.

Also get snagless cables, they tend to use a much higher quality plastic for the tabs.