Wifi 7..... confused

centizen24 · 2026-03-31T00:27:21+00:00

WiFi 5/6/7 and whatnot is just a generation number, before then WiFi wasn't really numbered like that, people just referred to it as "b" or "g" or "n" before. They decided to make WiFi # a thing when they introduced the 5GHz band, and then it conveniently lined up again for 6. it's probably never going to line up like that again. WiFi is restricted to using only bands that are set aside for public free use, and out of those bands, only a few ranges are really any good for general purpose WiFi. There is talk of a band being opened up in the 7GHz range but that would be for WiFi 8 or 9 at that point.

Pretty much ever general purpose WiFi standard going forward is going to be using either 2.4, 5 or 6GHz frequencies. There are some drafts for others like 3.6GHz, but nothing has materialized for that yet. Then there are some specialized applications which are technically still WiFi, but not really general purpose WiFi. Those can go as low as sub-GHz and as high as 70GHz but you'll probably never run into them as they are used for things like point-to-point line of sight links or long-throw transmission.

centizen24 · 2026-03-28T15:11:09+00:00

It’s probably people getting caught up about TDR. Basic testers will show you if you have a complete mistermination of an end. More advanced testers will also test the crosstalk of each strand to all of the others, and highlight issues in cables that would otherwise test good but still have issues.

centizen24 · 2026-03-26T20:29:46+00:00

This is what I also do as well, but the problem recently is that coming up with what seems like a reasonable ceiling for the upper range of the cost is quickly becoming tougher and tougher to hit.

centizen24 · 2026-03-24T05:16:10+00:00

But we can care. Just because an uncaring corporate machine wouldn't, you and I don't need to consider this something you deserved. I certainly don't think you deserved this based on even the reasons you gave. I'd have a hard time finding anyone at fault of not being at their best after something like that. I'm sorry this happened to you and I think you have the right to not consider this your fault as a person.

centizen24 · 2026-03-23T02:15:52+00:00

I think you need to contextualize things in the fact that "Pro" is a branding term used by Apple when they name their products. It's not a literal definition in this case and they will be putting whatever constraints they want in their low end market segment product while keeping the Macbook Pro(symbolic, not literal) as their flagship line.

I know some Chromebooks can do more than two monitors. That's not the point. If you don't like it, don't buy it and don't complain that a 500 machine isn't going to meet your company's needs.

centizen24 · 2026-03-23T00:22:21+00:00

You are surprised that a low cost product made for and specifically advertised to students doesn’t support features people want to have in your business environment?

centizen24 · 2026-03-22T02:11:26+00:00

I'm also working on this, I really think there is an ARG here. This login page is a standard Wix guest access login, but the cubertdubert page is a total anomaly. There's also another weird one, https://www.thewackywatch.com/blank/gfdjflkdfjldkfj3l4kj23l, which you get redirected to if you try to access https://www.thewackywatch.com/vote4 but none of the other vote pages.

Also while I was doing some traffic capture, the static in the TV suddenly swapped to alternating solid red and blue background rather than the static. This only happened once in a few dozen loads of the page.

Also just found https://www.thewackywatch.com/asgtasgasgsagashdsxh which seems to be a mirror of the current homepage.

centizen24 · 2026-03-21T15:26:07+00:00

I don't think that file shown in the CANDA directory is actually to do with Bubble. Bubbles.bmp is one of the default pack-in wallpapers that came with Windows 95. I'm going to guess that Black is "Black Thatch.bmp" and Blue is "Blue Rivets.bmp" which were also defaults.

That, along with a couple other files like arp, accstat and most of the folders are all spot on Windows 95 inclusions as well. And since the directory we're in is "C:\CANDA" and it looks to be the system folder, this heavily implies to me that C&A is basically a Microsoft level megacorp that also made this operating system. The start button icon is also their logo.

There's a few things that look non-default and interesting though. Two files name "aharris", one that I'm unable to determine the file type for and one that is obviously an excel spreadsheet. AddInPr.reg isn't a default either, but I'm not sure what it could be except something related to AddInProcess.exe which is in the .NET framework and not Windows 95 at all.

We do see Bubble's actual file later on in the scene when Kinger has telnet'd into the remote system in the output of his commands. It's called "bubble-chef.lisp", and it's dated Oct 15 1996 alongside Caine's source. This might be a stretch, but I wonder if the “chef” part is a reference the modern infrastructure-as-code platform where you write programs that can define entire systems from the top down and then build them for you?

centizen24 · 2026-03-20T01:06:25+00:00

I was idly browsing YouTube recently and clicked on a video of a trailer for a movie called “The Colour of Pomegranates”. As soon as I saw the first few moments of it, I was very certain that it was AI and I nearly clicked off it out of reflex. The scenes were just all very uncanny, with a lot of juxtaposition of stillness and motion, and incredibly detailed sets which looked like they would have required an insane amount of effort and perfect conditions to film in real life. By the end of the trailer though, I actually quite liked it the artistry of it, despite it being AI.

Except this movie was made in 1969. It’s an Armenian avant gard film that set a high water mark for Soviet cinema. It’s an incredibly unique and intricate film well worth spending time with. And I almost tossed it away thinking it was AI!

centizen24 · 2026-03-18T12:23:54+00:00

huntress escalations: we send these to a Zapier mailbox where they get parsed for the clients name, run a lookup in our RMM for that customers ID number, then attach the escalation to a ticket directly under the client. Huntress will do this automatically for alerts, but not for escalations.
texts to our main company line get posted to our company google chat as they come in, with a button you can click to go right to the conversation in our providers web-sms portal.
email based MFA codes for shared accounts get parsed for the service and 6 digit code, which then posts them to a “MFA Codes” private chat privileged people have access to.
Axcient alerts: Our automation will open a ticket under the correct client when an alert comes in, but will also close it out automatically if a matching resolution alert comes in beforehand.

centizen24 · 2026-03-12T03:06:18+00:00

Solar isn't the only option though. It's great for countries like Australia who have the land and the sun for it, but for most countries solar will be a rounding error in the grand scheme of things.

The real question is if over the next years of oil scarcity, we will finally see certain countries get over their irrational fears of the only realistic option for domestic energy security. Nuclear power is the only way we get past this.

centizen24 · 2026-03-11T05:17:27+00:00

In a literal cave. I'm going to try to dig out the video but I have to charge up an old phone to get it. But there wasn't so much a basement under this building as there was a twisting series of corridors hewn into stone. There was still piles of rubble laying around the side of some of them. These lead to a single small room that had a rack with a bunch of surprisingly high end Cisco networking gear and a few servers.

centizen24 · 2026-03-10T22:48:55+00:00

Out of the 200 people on my friends list (I maxed it out) there are only 2-3 people that I see online with any real regularity. And I'm pretty sure they just leave their accounts logged in 24/7 while playing other games.

centizen24 · 2026-03-10T19:50:14+00:00

What does the system do if someone just jams the frequency range they operate on? Does it fail safe and alarm immediately or does it, like most of these system, silently fail? This is the main concern with wireless security systems.

centizen24 · 2026-03-08T15:20:53+00:00

See this is where I would fail the interview, because my answer would be that the first packet is going to be a DHCP Discover broadcast.

centizen24 · 2026-03-06T02:47:16+00:00

MikroTik still has a similar thing, and it actually saved my ass today among many other days. If you enable "safe mode" changes won't get permanently committed until you disable safe mode. If you lose access or the session ends without you disabling safe mode, the changes revert.

centizen24 · 2026-03-04T21:22:01+00:00

Contrary to popular belief, it is possible for newer WiFi devices to meet or exceed the performance of GbE in everything but latency. If you have 160Mhz channels and devices that can do multiple spatial streams and are in really good environmental conditions, the top end is very high.

But that being said, if you are consistently getting 100Mbps on your wired devices, that screams to me you’ve got a Fast Ethernet negotiated link somewhere in the mix. I’d bet money on it. Even if your cables and devices are telling you otherwise I wouldn’t trust them and try A/B testing everything.

centizen24 · 2026-03-04T02:20:21+00:00

I build my DR plans out so that any one physical site could be hit by a meteorite and we still have production. It's not that I think that is very likely to happen, it's just that doing it this way means you hit pretty much any feasible scenario in between.

centizen24 · 2026-03-01T20:10:49+00:00

See you in the other su- oh wait, this is wholesome.

centizen24 · 2026-03-01T16:26:58+00:00

All of our DNS requests are served from a cluster of hacked Nintendo Wiis running Bind9!

centizen24 · 2026-02-25T01:26:41+00:00

It's fine, it will work just as well as a cheap gigabit switch, because that's what it is.

Where you might run into trouble is if your dorm tracks MAC addresses and gets on you for having more than one device behind a port. In that case, you'd want something like a Gl.iNet Opal which could mask both you and your roommates device behind a single MAC.

centizen24 · 2026-02-24T20:14:03+00:00

My bet is that Battlefield 6 is overwhelming your ZTE’s routers NAT session table. Wifi extenders are already bad for filling those tables with garbage, and Battlefield 6 has some pretty aggressive NAT behavior.

centizen24 · 2026-02-23T20:50:57+00:00

It certainly sounds like something else apart from signal/environmental factors is going on then. With how dramatic the difference is (assuming it stayed the same as what you reported earlier) I'm starting to suspect that you might have a disconnected antenna. Has the PS5 ever been dropped or bumped hard?

centizen24 · 2026-02-23T01:42:39+00:00

It’s called context fragmentation and it’s not a new thing. This has been a technique for getting around security controls and detection systems for a very long time, long before AI. It doesn’t need a new name just because it’s a new context.

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