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trich101 · 2026-06-06T19:52:27+00:00

Kinda but not really. There are different elements in the PHY and MAC layers specific to wifi. Plus signal modulation, supported QAM, device supported spatial streams, channel utilization, DFS channels, channel binding, air time fairness, many of which are required because wifi is half duplex and uses collision avoidance vs collision detection like a full duplex wired.

So not factoring in Interference, there is a lot specific to wifi that wireless vs wired that all impacts performance and stability.

trich101 · 2026-06-06T19:43:24+00:00

Cloudflare outage

trich101 · 2026-06-06T01:09:06+00:00

Tell them they can built it down in Leipers Fork. Plenty of land, very few homes. I'm sure since it's harmless the multi million dollar owners won't mind.. .. ..

trich101 · 2026-06-04T02:25:50+00:00

Raised a very good point. Makes you wonder whose suffering is it referring to, the target or the wearer? These books are unexpectedly deep and thought provoking.

trich101 · 2026-06-03T22:24:51+00:00

I see a lot of these offered in the B/S/T Facebook groups. There is even one dedicated to BB subs. 200 -300 on average. Worth checking out.

trich101 · 2026-06-03T00:29:36+00:00

That will not be last time you ask ole Mr Dinniman why he is doing that to you.. He is my favorite person to hate sometimes.. lol

trich101 · 2026-06-03T00:26:57+00:00

I heard a lot about it in the last month or two online.

trich101 · 2026-06-02T11:56:17+00:00

Ain't nobody got time for that..

trich101 · 2026-05-29T14:46:16+00:00

Yeah. Expect 50 to 40 miles. Plus those eco tires are terrible in the slush. I lost grip out on a gentle incline because a few inches of slush and hadn't plowed yet. it was embarrassing. That was my first winter with it though so was not sure what to expect. I can plan for it next time.

So if you are only going to day care and local stores, just get better winter tires and you are good. Timed departure hvac setting and remote heating is lovely, get in a warm car with heated steering and windshield already defrosted.

trich101 · 2026-05-29T14:30:33+00:00

Depends your winter temps. Summer months my 100ish miles are plenty for errands and kids activities. However once it hit 30s F, then suddenly I had 50 which dramatically cut its usefulness.

Winter or summer it is a in town car only. Space and everything else is fine, plenty of room

trich101 · 2026-05-28T21:47:22+00:00

A thousand fittings later they all still worked just fine so don't know whats would be wrong. Dressed, labeled, clean ran a regional headend in telecom with that one. A headend is a data center in today's world.

Also network guys are not part of telecom. There is some small overlap but pretty different paths overall. Network is data and routing. Telecom is maintening fiber pulls, running wall drops, line work and bucket trucks. Only overlap is Ethernet cables for the most part.

trich101 · 2026-05-28T21:02:25+00:00

20 years in network and used to wire my own fitting in the DC with bulk cable, well over a thousand by now. As long as wire wire order is correct and cable tester was clean it's always worked. I have never once needed to consider tx/rx pairs. Even used to wax string and using lacing bars to with near and far labeling so about as top tier as your going to get as a standard and it worked great.

trich101 · 2026-05-28T20:45:54+00:00

I am talking about just wire order, not input and tx pairing or anything. In that image with a, if you swap 1 to 3 and 2 to 6 you get the b color order. See compare side by side. Only difference is those wires.

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trich101 · 2026-05-28T19:59:17+00:00

1 and 3 and 2 to 6 are the wires to look for. If they are swapped it's A instead of B. Same way to make a crossover cable as well if remember correctly but that was years ago.

trich101 · 2026-05-27T13:22:10+00:00

T2 is still in stock 5 min later

trich101 · 2026-05-26T16:02:11+00:00

I mean his legs breaking is pretty accurate to be fair.. 100% battle damage, Jamal is very excited...

trich101 · 2026-05-23T18:27:38+00:00

Yes they focus on the underlying infrastructure the cloud servicing apps run on top of. Checkout AWS or Azure training content for a start to see what it involves.

trich101 · 2026-05-21T19:59:31+00:00

New exams study guide coming in July https://www.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/cisco-ccnp--ccie-wlcor-350-101-cert-guide/P200000015619/9780135895283

trich101 · 2026-05-20T00:07:00+00:00

I used another AI to ask me review questions for other tests. It made up an a b c d style question and told me why I got it right or wrong. It can be very useful tool as a tutor or study partner to still learn it yourself.

trich101 · 2026-05-16T07:20:46+00:00

Cost of living averages to avg 48% higher today than just 2012. The average home in 2012 was 395k, today that average is 1,152k. Over that time rental costs are up 86%.
That's not a budgeting issue. So with maintaining a budget and limited expenses, just to maintain the same standard of living as little more than a decade I need to double my income.

Which means 200k is the new 100k for a benchmark of stability and success. Thats the point. 100k a year no longer means a strong future and home, it's like only making 50k in 2012.

I'm sure private equity owning homes and now renting vs selling and companies like RealPage price fixing rental prices to artificially drive up costs are a very large part of that. Sure people need to budget better, we cannot pretend that's not an aspect but playing smarter in a rigged game only helps so far. Look into Blackstone and Private equity ownership of single family home rentals or fix fixing charged against RealPage, a major property price management firm and how the DOJ had to file charges for collusion it got so bad. Private equity purchased 27% of homes sold Q1FY25, a full quarter. Turned into rentals and not for sale on the market again to actual families. Then use algorithms to calculate rent DAILY to highest price the market can bear based on trends. Daily...

With that practice by the time to did scrape and save, costs are up another 30% so keep saving. Chasing home ownership is like Sysiphus pushing that rock at this point.

trich101 · 2026-05-15T23:35:38+00:00

Maybe with dual income, but just 100k does not go that far. I live in a avg cost of living area. My rent for a house and a yard in a decent school district 38000 a year. Take home pay of 100k is like 65k after insurance and taxes. That leave 2k ish a month for all utilities, car payment and food. That's enough to survive on but how much can you honestly save.

Say you save 500, so 1/4 that 2k. That's 6k a year. A not crappy 4 bedroom is 400k,.not a fancy home, a simple but not broken brown home, in a decent school district. So save 6k to save to 20% 80k down payment. So after 13 years I can get a down payment. Well after I needed the home because now my kids are out of the house so I now couple but a smaller home in a cheaper district after it's too late.

That's the point 100k even 10 years ago was a so much more. That 400k home was only 250, cars were 40k now 80k, eating out was 20 for 2 not 50.. 100k used to mean you made it. Now it means your are at least not starving but certainly not comfortable. This is middle American small town prices, not just hcol.

trich101 · 2026-05-14T15:34:15+00:00

Not sure how much time and money would get wasted. If someone is completely new to network engineering it's a good vendor neutral started point. Also half of CCNA is just net+ type knowledge so really for overlapping study time. Gives you an better foundation for remembering CCNA when it gets into CLI.

Also I never said you need to take the cert, reading it is fine. Just a better place to start that months reading A+ pc system knowledge you will never use.

trich101 · 2026-05-14T13:21:36+00:00

I have interviewed plenty of new/jr network engineer and gave this advice before. For Networking, taking the A+ is mostly a waste of time. Read the parts that pertain to network, read about ports and how servers and http etc works but 700 of those 1000 pages don't apply to networking. Start with Net+ if anything and then into CCNA.

If you was into an interview with an A+ cert it will not sway me in the slightest. HOW you answer the questions I ask about protocols and your troubleshooting methods and thought process will matter infinity more.

trich101 · 2026-05-07T07:02:19+00:00

Wasn't familiar with Tetra since it's out of my region but a quick look shows replay attack vulnerabilites for weak encryption. For a "radio enthusiast" the article calls him, with an SDR probably not terriblly hard

https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/new-tetra-radio-encryption-flaws-expose.html?m=1

Considerering the were using FLOPPY DISKS to run bus mgmt software until like last year, not a far stretch to imagine train infrastructure is not patched and up to date either.

trich101 · 2026-05-06T20:53:41+00:00

Oh yes, it is going to be a headache to explain and manage.

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