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I remember doing this, too. After tweaking the modems further I was able to get the equivalent of 128 Kbps ISDN and was downloading in bursts of 20 KB/sec or more. My latency in Counter-Strike was cut in half to 15-20ms. Funny how 100ms latency is considered acceptable these days when I was going 5 times as fast on a dial up connection 20 years ago.I remember back in 1999ish, my friend and I successfully linked two 56k modems together, we thought it was the coolest thing ever. We were able to download files at a blistering 11kb a second. It was awesome!
Man, those were the times werent they? I remember only having a 56k connection at my house. But I had a friend with pretty well off parents, they had cable internet. We would have LAN parties every weekend at his house. Our Counterstrike latency was 20-30ms. It was great! That was back when Napster & Kazzaa and the Warez sites popular too.I remember doing this, too. After tweaking the modems further I was able to get the equivalent of 128 Kbps ISDN and was downloading in bursts of 20 KB/sec or more. My latency in Counter-Strike was cut in half to 15-20ms. Funny how 100ms latency is considered acceptable these days when I was going 5 times as fast on a dial up connection 20 years ago.
I have done that.. at UCSB I had a job at the comsup lab in the Engineering 1 building.. I had to crawl through a tiny crawl space and tap in at the nodal points on the "thick net" to feed labs with network connectivity.. this was in like 94 ~ 95? ish.. technically I guess that was my first tech job but it felt more like sort of like a place to hang out between classes and I got paid a little too. God it was hot in that crawl space!
Ha - These were the old 10base5 taps (thickwire) we used to use with Digital Equipment Corp back in the 80's (pre 10base2 thin wire and 10baseT). We used to run around with the vampire kit and drill into the cable.
Out of curiosity, did you have easy access to make runs (i.e. either attic and basement)? Drill through studs/beams in wall to make runs? My house literally has no attic as it's a "box style" house, and access is limited to wherever I cut a hole in the drywall, and only then because of the roof slope only half of that space is really accessable (guess which half my computer is in the house!)I run Ethernet runs all over the house.
Out of curiosity, did you have easy access to make runs (i.e. either attic and basement)? Drill through studs/beams in wall to make runs? My house literally has no attic as it's a "box style" house, and access is limited to wherever I cut a hole in the drywall, and only then because of the roof slope only half of that space is really accessable (guess which half my computer is in the house!)
Holy balls. She gets paid to write that stuff?You guys looked into Emma's other articles? Similar hilarity.
https://www.businessinsider.com/author/emma-witman
Well yea, because we all clicked it and provided ad revenue for them and thus gave value to her work.Holy balls. She gets paid to write that stuff?
Yes, because 95% of computer users aren't knowledgeable enough to know what a website notification is, and not think it's a Virus.Holy balls. She gets paid to write that stuff?
A minute after you took this photo:wait so if I go wireless, I won't need all these wires?
Same.
I've run cat6 throughout my house just to avoid issues.
When I had my house built 5 years ago I had them put one in every room but bathrooms, and even put one in the garage. I asked them if they could do cat 6a or cat 7 but the best spools of cable they could find were cat 6. I recently finished the basement myself with cat 7 so at least that's ready.I have 1GB ethernet to every room in my house. Honestly I'm gonna be a bit annoyed when 10GB ethernet is cheap and ubiquitous enough that I'll have to redo everything. It was a pain to do in the first place.
How did you almost die doing that?I almost died doing the work so I appreciate it just more and more.
Ma Bell heard he was ripping out the phone jacks.How did you almost die doing that?
I was in my crawlspace dropping cable when it got knotted in the wall. I started pulling it, it suddenly came loose, and I slammed my head on the roof. Looking up, I had just narrowly avoided the nails the roof tiles were nailed in with. Long, sharp nails, that would have possibly gone right into my skull. I stopped, cleaned up, and went straight to Home Depot for a hard hat.How did you almost die doing that?
Yeah, I've had a few close calls with roofing nails myself. Not pulling anything, but standing up (which is almost as bad). Busted my skull more than a few times on various things when standing up...should probably just always have a hard hat on.I was in my crawlspace dropping cable when it got knotted in the wall. I started pulling it, it suddenly came loose, and I slammed my head on the roof. Looking up, I had just narrowly avoided the nails the roof tiles were nailed in with. Long, sharp nails, that would have possibly gone right into my skull. I stopped, cleaned up, and went straight to Home Depot for a hard hat.