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>>107005973 I made one of these for my brother without the cripping tool. It was painful pushing the contact points one by one. He didnt even say thank you
is making your own cat cables recommended? will alie express gear work?
>>107006062No, once you start using cat6 or better, just acquire cables from somewhere.
my new HTPC/NAS based on Asrock N100M. half of the components are old stuff I had laying around (case, PSU, SATA SSD for system, and my HDDs with data). I just bought a mobo (new), RAM (used) and a PCI SATA expander.it works, but I can't honestly recommend it for a Linux HTPC. it was a bitch to get it to play 4k@60, and it still occasionally drops frames when streaming 4k youtube (even though in practice you can't really see it). I imagine it works better with Windows.
Opinions on the Ubiquti Dream Router 7? I was originally going to go for a TP-Link or ASUS WiFi 7 router, but they're almost the same price and the Ubiquti router seems more prosumer than just consumer. >>107006062I've either made my own cables if I needed a specific length or I've replaced the connectors when they break, everything has always worked with a basic crimp tool I got years ago.But the fastest connection on my network is 2.5Gbps and the longest cable is 10 m so take my advice with a grain of salt.
>>107006087>he doesn't produce his own glass fibres for homemade fibre optic cables
wait, /hsg/ doesn't crimp their cables?? like wtf? what kind of sysop larpers are you?
>>107006207i did it in my gay little highschool cisco networking class in highschool ~2002-2003.
>>107006092 (me)idles at 22V with all drives put to sleep. not too bad considering it uses an ancient ATX PSU.
>>107006234>22Vit better not be
>>107006234*22W
>>107006207>not be neet>heave a near infinite supply of network cables to steal from the office/data center.
>>107006207>just make your own fibre optic cables broThey are dirt cheap from local suppliers why would I bother?
>>107006260>Real professionals buy solutions than make them.I hate this gay earth.
>>107006304>Real professionals have the company purchase professionally made cabling instead of wasting their time making cables and then troubleshooting why the connection is intermittent.
>ITT /hsg/ outed as a bunch of crimplets and posers
>>107006454>ITT rampant schizophrenia
>>107006062i had cat6 and all they run was 10basebought cat5e with high hopes
>>107006444Why even have you as a employee if they can just buy the stuff and service?
ive crimped at least 300 cat5/cat6 cables in my life, including ~30 in the past year
i made my own server recently with an old pc using an amd r5 2600, 1080ti, 16gb, 2 hdd and 2 ssd.i use true nas scale and my apps are the arrs+jellyfin and something for ebooks and photos.am I better with something like a lenovo minipc?
>>107006530Because your average person has terminal dogishit retard brain and thinks their computer is a scary magic box that will ruin your life if you touch it wrong and therefore chimp the fuck out when asked to do anything remotely technical, let alone setup a professional network
I need a recommendation for a nice router with at least 4x 2.5gbps lan ports
>>107006444>>107006454>>107006530When I was in a proper DC (Google), 90% of cables where pre-made.Intra racks where DAC, between racks where MPO (impossible to field terminate afaik)They did have the means to terminate single mode, but I've not seen a single soul do it in my 2 years. That being said it might be handled by the fiber contractor if they really need a cable.The only cables that where regualry done by us techs was rj45 and it was only for the batteries at the bottom or top but even then they where rarely replaced.When new hardware comes in, it's followed by pallets and pallets stacked with spools of fiber of various lengths.
What happens if I combines WiFi names (same name and pass for both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz), but I switch off the router's 'band steering'?Googling isn't helping much, I can only find examples of people talking about combining + band steering, or separate names + no band steering. Can't find the middle ground I'm talking about.
>>107007725AFAIK the device just does whatever the hell it wants.
>>107007753Thanks. I'm gonna give that a try, I'm having some connection issues. Maybe the devices know better than the router.
>>107005973Passthrough are gay.>>107006062I would, but I'm an electrician by hand. That being said it's the cheapest and most material efficient way to install data drops throughout thehouse. You'll also have an easier time fishing raw cable without the connectors. Along with a crimper get>pic relatedYou'll use it to strip the jacket and trim the wire. Don't get pass through connectors.
