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I prefer bareback
Neither. I choose neither.
Choose B and better switches
If you can’t so that, choose B and use scissors to shorten the guard a hair
Literally never found myself wanting one of these on my cable. I’ve found myself swearing at them more times than I can remember
You’ve apparently never pulled hundreds of feet of ethernet cable from racks or under raised datacenter floors. Without these, you’re replacing that connector once it pops loose from the tangle without a tab
Who’s pulling hundreds of feet of already terminated cable?
People who work on highrises. Ownership and management really have no concept of what they are asking when they say the server room needs to go from one side of the building to another, especially if there is satellite internet. Fuck satellite internet.
Broadcast jobs. Every single job you run, and then later pull, dozens or hundreds of data cables.
Oh, labelling? Forget it. You’ll label the first batch, and then be in a frantic rush that nothing else is labelled. Just a messy spreadsheet that you try to not forget.
Couldn’t you tape it over when pulling?
I also have tape
Everyone is right on the internet
One on the right, when asked about “some switches”:
Guy I used to work with would intentionally break off the latch on every cable he touched, rendering this question moot.
I assume he has since disappeared under mysterious circumstances, at the same time as all of his coworkers were somewhere else on a walk together (or so they swear)
That guy must get around because I have seen far too many cables like that in important racks.
The one on the right, every day. The one on the left is a pain in the ass to disconnect.
Medic!
Recite the Ode after me:
Orange-stripe Orange, Green-Stripe Blue,
Blue-Stripe Green, Brown-Stripe BrownOrange on left
Brown on right
Stripe solid stripe solid
Green green was the worst anime I have ever fucking seen
Green green bad
I hate that this is what works for me
Am I the only one to call them ‘light orange’ instead of ‘orange-stripe’? I know they aren’t that color, yet whenever I’m crimping a cable and have to repeat the colors to get them in order…
“white orange” in my neck of the woods.
Also: my life improved immensely when I decided to spend 12 quid to buy this:
I literally sploosh every time I use it. Doesn’t matter what the wire, length, thickness, or girth. They crimp all the same
What is this?
I know what crimping is, and I know how to terminate an Ethernet cable, but I don’t know why you’d want to crimp 4 things at once and don’t know what those socket things you’re crimping on are?
Ferrules - great for terminal blocks, wagos etc. It’s just for crimping one - the stripped wire goes into the plastic end, and the metal sheathing is crimped down onto the exposed wire.
I need to get some of these for my audio cable
Mine, hold your excitement, mine crimps from six sides at once!!! SIX!!
Oh shit, should I send mine back?? I got it yesterday, but not sure if I cheaped out. Is 6 better than 4?
I have no clue, probably not 😅
I just wanted to add to it. And I love how the crimp… things close!
I know! It’s sooo satisfying
Are we sure Lemmy doesn’t have an algorithm? This is the second comment dropping the Golden Crimping Code i see in like 5 minutes
Lemmy Code: Shun capitalism and push crimping products. You will comply.
Finally a thread for me!
I like the protected tabs because barring any absurd workspace dimensions I can use the plastic as extra leverage to press down on the tab with.
And I like sliding the Ethernet Foreskin over the terminal after I’m done assembling it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Plus you can re-use the covers later for sex later
later for sex later
“Doctor, are you sure this will work!?”
“HAHA, I have NO IDEA!”
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Neither, cable boots are a pain in the ass no matter the design.
I always circumcise my RJ45 connectors before plugging them in.
Great, now I’m going to call these RJ45 foreskins.
* poorly designed switches
Reboots some switches is a pro.
I used to have to fix these terminations after Joe Dick Corp Guy would break them off. It was mind numbing work, kind of like being on shopping cart duty at a grocery store.
Reboots some switches
How are you rebooting a switch with a connector?
As some mentioned, Cisco. 10 years ago I had to work with one of it’s partners, and this was a massive deal.
Spent months just making sure everywhere it was stated they had that issue.
Some dumber manufacturers put the reset button right above a port, such that the clip cover can bump it on insertion.
dumber manufacturers
Cisco
Sorry, dumb and corrupt manufacturers.
This Cisco field notice has diagrams for the curious.
Hey! You made me click a Cisco URL! My phone is provably infected now!
How many versions of this diagram did Cisco make 😄
In some cases it presses the button that is right above the eathernet slots
It presses the button or else it gets the hose again.
I’ve never seen that button reboot a switch. If held during a reboot it will interrupt the boot process but not initiate it.
I’m a no boot man, causes more issues then they solve.
yeah same. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve ripped lock tabs off, meanwhile the number of times the stiff protective boot makes it impossible to unclip when it is cold or more than 5yo is easily in the thousands.
Also reterminating a plug with a broken lock tab takes like 5 minutes to cut and crimp… Or be a real chad and throw a strip of duct tape to hold it in and say fuckit.
Used to run LAN parties. We had a big bag of ethernet cables we inherited from the people who ran it before us, and like 50% of them had no tab. Eventually we chucked them out.
5 min to fix is generous too. That includes finding your tools before and putting them away after.
I have an optiplex micro I bought off eBay that has the opposite of the locking tab on the jack broken out. Piece of string tied around the cable then wrapped around the chassis to hold it in place.
There’s a secret third option I didn’t include
Yes! I freaking hate boots and I’ve never really yanked a cable from the end where it would get stuck on something and I’ve been under a lot of desks and in telco closets/data centers.
than*
How is it hard to get right?
Maybe they meant that they solve the issues after causing them. Who can really know?
