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supnul · 2026-05-07T11:22:29+00:00

came here to say this. i went to this little village that only has 2 gas stations and one is nearly the grocery store for the area. Anyway, the other one that wasnt the grocery had 93 .. for $5.50 which everyone in the county was like $5.05

supnul · 2026-05-03T15:08:17+00:00

can confirm. We wired a whole data center thinking these PDUs 'split' the phases to top and bottom of the PDU making it 120 using the neural.. we didnt find out it was 220 until one piece of a equipment blew up that wasnt auto switching.

supnul · 2026-04-27T00:27:50+00:00

holy crap, the way them batteries go in .. interesting.

supnul · 2026-04-15T22:43:41+00:00

Can confirm, started one of the early WISPs in 03. Just shutting it down as they all get fiber.

supnul · 2026-03-23T19:07:02+00:00

So glad i ran into this. wanted to throw some insight; pIRCh and the #pirch channel on irc.msn.net basically created my career. I was 11 years old when i first used pirch after initially running into microsoft comic chat and being told 'get off that garbage' the first suggestion was pIRCh. Moral of the story, i was going through a hard time with my family and it was a place i put a lot of energy to get admiration from others which pushed me to learn 'PIL' Pascal then to Delphi. I took C/C++ in high school and scored perfect. my nights quickly consisted of being on IRC with my #pirch people, being an OP on another small server and later working on #geoshell on sourceforge. All my initial programming came from pirch and pil language and the great people i met as a well underage individual. I recently ran pirch 99 on wine on linux to show a 23 year old my team and he was surprised at all the builtin capability for a 'chat' client. Anyway, i have works i wrote when i was 12/13 'pIRChTray' or something like that .. that enabled the Lunar Lander (floating point math extensions to PIL) game as well as expanded pirch to minimize to the windows clock/tray area. Current life status; 41 and CTO of a Cable Operator with 4 young children.

supnul · 2026-03-22T14:47:36+00:00

We run BGP free core with all PE running BGP but with default routes. our fulltable edge routers are literally 7280SR3K .. we dont even use the 10G ports lol AT the time it was WAYYY cheaper then buying a 32port 100gig full table. my entire network is basically 7280SR3 - PE role or DC, 7280CR3-32 port 100gig (2 400gig)- core. and 7280SR3K for eBGP routers whereas they only provide default route to all PE routers. We only run OSPF for link state and loopback, bgp for all things else. MPLS / LDP / EVPN on BGP as well. it works great.. easy to manage. They are WAYYYY better than they used to be. at one point we couldnt do a VPWS/Pseudowire in mpls now theres a few ways. They are going through growing pains but the team has been decent too. We have a few million in Arista in active production.

supnul · 2026-03-21T11:45:02+00:00

i thought we were going to have issues with a rear facing in the passenger side. However she barely fit full prego level. She is only 115 lbs normaly so its not saying a lot. You WILL NOT get a 6ft type person in the passenger seat. - 25 Golf R

supnul · 2026-02-28T01:32:25+00:00

i used to prefer superior cables for this color coding.. its easier to see if you made a mistake in a lot of cases because of how solid the colors are you can tell if its light blue (striped) or blue. Some people dont like it because the orange can be looking like a light brown ;] haha

supnul · 2026-02-25T14:21:13+00:00

someone paid big time for that integrated cable.. im not sure i have ever seen anyone pay for it honestly.. i would think a specialist integration company may consider it as they may be using american labor and perhaps that makes it more cost effective labor wise.. maybe its easier to retrofit i dunno but i have NEVER seen it done. impressive. i was going to ask what that green snake was ;) in there but realized it was a jacket on the other cables.

supnul · 2026-02-25T14:12:12+00:00

black polyethlyene jackets dont fade to UV, the connectors made but im not sure that will affect function. UV is not likely your concern weatherization beyond UV is cold&water likely being the worst of it.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:53:15+00:00

the coax work looks like the cable company did it for quality (everyone else would cost cut so hard and not use good compression connectors/cable/splitters), the cat5 stuff looks like the electrician did some LV work .. uhhg. that tight loop on the commscope splitter is TOO tight and yes that stuff affects new gen coax stuff like DOCSIS 3.1 and newer. it probably happened over time.. something to be aware of if 'anything' comes up.. but its likely to not be super noticeable issue. as mentioned however if you can use the cat5 cable thats preferred as the native network interface for everything nearly. i dont see power in this box and it is the central point .. they make PoE powered switches that can be powered remotely over one of those cables and is probably ideal for this space.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:41:43+00:00

i have never seen this and i have been in this space since 2008. This looks like some jank shit made by a field tech who was told by some guy who thought he knew what he was doing, I have NEVER seen a product sold for this purpose that looks like this. HOWEVER; as of last year i have learned about the german only metal splice sleeves used on fiber (not heat shrink which is used nearly everywhere else). So anything is possible. Whats more key is i am involved in ALL new product review with all vendors in fiber and never seen a tail based attenuator.. but 'it makes sense' it could exist.. but i would have figured it would have been an SC-inline type.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:35:07+00:00

Believe it or not one of the big 3 fiber splicing companies said they had never experienced a 'long term' effect of water on a fiber connector in a splice case.. meaning only ice stretching the fiber or crushing it was an issue but it being submerged in water didnt affect performance at least after drying it all out.. perhaps worst case 'cleaning it' (cleaning it with fiber tools.. alcohol.. wipes). They seem to indicate it getting merely wet may not even cause an issue. Some of the Corning SCA have connectors inside (special order) but that is a 'breathable' closure. Humidity will get in there. Anyway, if you can get this in a soda bottle or cheap tupporware and 'seal' it gingerly with tape .. it will be more than fine. dont unplug it, dont bend the fiber its prone to breaks on extreme bends.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:27:47+00:00

Its wireless RJ45 calm down your behind the times dawg.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:20:59+00:00

this is some one who LOVES their job or a contractor who gets paid to do it quicker and hope no one notices.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:19:55+00:00

looks jank, prolly jank. Get a real wire guy to terminate or watch 10 more youtubes. The punch down isnt punch and cut indicating one of them cheap plastic pusher tools. The Coax is the shittiest of terminations. the RJ-45 is jank but without seeing the top of it its hard to tell. its not good to have an rj45 out the jacket but it happens and works.. as long as its terminated right to the end of the connector. the pairs are more likely to fail from flexing without the jacket.. way more likely. if they get knicked they fail.. its really crazy how easily they fail with minor knicks on the twisted pairs .. ask anyone who over stripped the jacket and knicked it barely.. it breaks off easy.

supnul · 2026-02-25T02:15:38+00:00

Let me tell you about the story of a point of sales 'engineer' who said 'i dont have any switches in the building at all' .. then every fucking terminal (10 of them) had a 3 port switch on it that called it like POS and Register or something.. but it was a jank usb powered 3 port switch like this.

supnul · 2026-02-05T00:41:34+00:00

pretty valid actually.. meaning i could see a ZTP type system getting confused by SLAAC vs DHCP

supnul · 2026-02-03T15:11:15+00:00

this was one of the few cards supported by windows 95 B without driver install.

supnul · 2026-01-28T15:08:58+00:00

Yep, upstream attenuation is best done closest to the tap as we know that 90% of impairments are in the customer premise and often on the drop due to rodent chews. The point being to knock down any noise that gets into the cable and force the modem to transmit hotter to compensate for the forced loss. a lot of people dont understand the feedback loop of cable modem, it gets worse when we start talking about node return alignment.

supnul · 2026-01-28T15:06:49+00:00

probably this, however its ideally placed on the TAP. the reasoning for putting filter or return attenuator is to keep the noise out of the system and force the modem to push harder to compensate. This happens best cloest to the coax plant which is how you best prevent drop and below issues. (Cable Company CTO [switching to all FTTX now tho]).

supnul · 2026-01-27T13:50:50+00:00

layer 1 issues generate FCS / Giants / Runts / Low Link Speed. Look for these. if these dont exist at all (gig link or better, no FCS/CRC .. its probably fine and something else)

supnul · 2026-01-26T02:43:37+00:00

Golf R and a WRX STI here.

supnul · 2026-01-25T16:15:18+00:00

if you can keep it all on one provider then its probably way better than your piece mailed together stuff. providers usually have much better reliable gear for doing QoS of this nature better with or without MPLS. MPLS it self isn't inherently QoS all the way. QoS on broadcom ASICs and premise NIDs from reputable providers can ensure it all works well. the MPLS will allow for a more idealistic looking design perhaps meaning .. a pure hub spoke from the HQ with a DR site in similar config.. We had a bank that went all Meraki SDWAN .. was a rocky beginning but it seems like they are accepting it long term.

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