Ancestors

Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 04:29

Finally I have a wired network back into the lounge room. It’s only taken a couple of years to get around to fixing it…

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Toot

Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 04:33

All credit where it’s due: the armoured fibre optic cable running from the lounge room, across the front entrance hallway, to the study, is showing signs of battle-damage but it’s still providing a solid connection.

EDIT: photos of the carnage

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Descendants

Written by Allie on 2025-01-21 at 04:38

@jpm pity Vocus didn't use one of them

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 04:40

@grissallia of course not, these are like 3x the price of a normal patch cable, but the steel spiral braid definitely works for “high-traffic areas”

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Written by sortius on 2025-01-21 at 04:43

@jpm @grissallia I might have to get one eventually, but I have a spare cable for the floor-to-floor connection as is, so that won't be a while yet

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 05:16

@sortius @grissallia now with added photos of the carnage

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Written by sortius on 2025-01-21 at 05:17

@jpm @grissallia that's pretty good. Especially as those stupid rubber cable protectors are trip hazards in and of themselves

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 05:47

@sortius @grissallia yep, I’m absolutely a convert to running fibre cables through the house if you can’t go through walls. The other half of the trick is to use the small 3M Command hooks, which are perfect because fibre cables are so small and light that you can run them across the ceiling instead of the floor

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Written by SomeGen on 2025-01-21 at 04:54

@jpm haha, I had a similar setup in an old apartment, though not armoured. Single strand of 2mm jacket SMOF, managed to snake it under the a hallway carpet, lasted until I moved out even with being trod on daily. The end plugging into the switch under my desk took the brunt of many kitten attacks though and had to be re-spliced semi-regularly.

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 05:14

@SomeGen added photos. And yeah, love using BiDi for runs around the house where you can’t run through walls

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Written by sky-guided on 2025-01-21 at 05:09

@jpm I bet you'd have to do some pretty hideous things before it lost connectivity tbh.

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 05:13

@skyguided just added photos. It’s a solid cable

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Written by Tim 🎮 on 2025-01-21 at 05:44

@jpm can't stop the signal, Mal

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Written by joe on 2025-01-21 at 06:48

@jpm

Do you have sharks in your home?

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 07:01

@Joe_von_Saporski 2 kids and an occasional vacuum cleaner

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Written by s0 Unbreaks Stuff on 2025-01-21 at 07:08

@jpm duude

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Written by Joel Michael on 2025-01-21 at 07:17

@s0 about 5 years of service in a hallway. Between the girls playing with it and the vacuum cleaner occasionally having a chomp on it, it’s done pretty well.

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