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Ol' reliable (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 days ago by [M] to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 78 points 3 days ago (41 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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  • [–] 55 points 3 days ago (21 children)

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

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  • [–] 50 points 3 days ago* (9 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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  • [–] 52 points 3 days ago (6 children)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days 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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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    How do they review reboot switches?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days 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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  • [–] 9 points 3 days 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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  • [–] 11 points 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago (4 children)

    Second reminder to replace the blue miscreant.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (2 children)

    This is a final reminder to remind you about the replacement reminders.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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.

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