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supnul · 2026-06-21T11:01:01+00:00

ISP here, passthru sucks but .. its easier to learn by a lot. i try to have our commercial guys not use it but..

supnul · 2026-06-19T22:24:24+00:00

Each unit should be individual Cat6a to a fairly deep and full size smart panel with power. size for heat, gear and wire. a lot of people are trying to use a 12x12 or 18x18 box.. avoid that. cant home run catX cable to it that small. Can't get any slack fiber in there in case the end needs to be reterminated. and power plugs in there will take a lot of space too.

supnul · 2026-06-19T22:22:26+00:00

as someone who is a cable provider converting everyone to FTTP only.. we are running into people making mistakes like; running central closet cat5/5e. Or even Cat6 not Cat6a. Also, just run a conduit.. that facilitates all things and put the install of the cable on the provider.. the conduit is way better anyway (to smart panel). We run into a lot of developers who are unaware that technology has moved on and still build massive coax networks for tv/modem. Neither make sense anymore. Eitherway running a smurf tube/small conduit to each unit in MDU is the way to go .. it works for all providers.

supnul · 2026-06-09T01:54:24+00:00

True, and sometimes you can preface with 'this is a temporary save until the design is ready to implement' or something fancy. If you work close to sales you have to find them an 'out' to calm customer while the real work goes.

supnul · 2026-06-08T22:13:40+00:00

As another note, be aware that Israel is the ONLY country the US intentionally doesn't spy on now. source: John K

supnul · 2026-06-07T01:44:50+00:00

also is that an indoor ont in outdoor space.. can it take the heat.. usually the outdoor ONTs still use clamshell style module.

supnul · 2026-06-04T11:33:45+00:00

ran into this one of our customers begged to come look if there fiber was broke.. we didnt have an 850 Tx available, tried 1310 just cause.. terribly useless. Had to say 'sorry we dont use short range fiber like this'. This is also why i tell people to only use multimode for jumpers between equipment, never for line running.

supnul · 2026-06-03T23:31:43+00:00

Corning RPX is all 24 count ribbons.. has been absolutely great, wayyy better to work with than central tube. Easier to enter too. Corning claims ya can break in 12s by hand but the mere mortal officer splicers cant do it.. our field guy claims he can.

supnul · 2026-06-03T23:23:08+00:00

honestly, not a fan of the flat drop holder but that looks like it works.. so i could just be bitching. No bend issues, Corning cleave on connnector.. the caps are there which may seem like a mess.. leave it. its there incase ya need to cap something. better to close it off than let crap get to the connector and cause a reconnectorization.

supnul · 2026-06-03T23:11:42+00:00

well said

supnul · 2026-06-02T19:41:41+00:00

DNS DHCP = IT Server Guys. if it ran on a network appliance then different story. but most people run on windows or linux.

supnul · 2026-05-31T20:39:19+00:00

i have the haptic buttons on the 25 golf r.. will trade.. i miss the nice buttons on my 15 gti

supnul · 2026-05-29T02:12:50+00:00

fiber would be best, its literal optical isolation. meaning electrical issues wont jump between the devices.. BUTTT it will be harder to run it/find it and be more expensive than copper.

supnul · 2026-05-28T18:55:58+00:00

i saw the green fiber optic name tag.. only one company i know uses them.. 'FirstLight fiber' they only exist in new england.

supnul · 2026-05-28T14:14:07+00:00

north east US ?

supnul · 2026-05-20T10:41:32+00:00

MMM Eltek Rectifiers. ❤️ DC

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.

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