| zxm-pi_ | hi de hi | 11:24 |
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| daftykins | \o/ | 12:27 |
| daftykins | another rainy day here on the rock | 12:27 |
| zxm-pi_ | rain predicted for later. sunny atm | 12:31 |
| daftykins | sun in Ireland!? | 12:33 |
| zxm-pi_ | it's a trap trying to lure people outside | 12:35 |
| daftykins | :D | 12:44 |
| zxm-pi_ | just look for the clouds with fake mustache and glasses | 13:03 |
| daftykins | still pondering the best way to go about checking if a client's 20+ year old category 5 cabling can be repurposed to handle PoE WiFi APs | 13:05 |
| MattJ | Connect, if no smoke alarms sound within 5 minutes, you're good | 13:06 |
| daftykins | :D | 13:06 |
| MattJ | I think regulations suggest 15 minutes, but pft | 13:06 |
| zxm-pi_ | https://community.fs.com/blog/how-to-choose-cables-for-power-over-ethernet.html see if they are a match? | 13:07 |
| MattJ | A couple of years ago I drilled a hole into a door frame | 13:07 |
| MattJ | Then all the lights went out | 13:07 |
| zxm-pi_ | i once turned on a pc and blew out power for whole industrial estate. a lot of magic smoke that day | 13:08 |
| MattJ | Turns out the door frame was hollow, and there was a mains cable running inside it | 13:08 |
| daftykins | wowzer | 13:08 |
| MattJ | Electrician couldn't come right away, but resetting the RCD brought everything back | 13:09 |
| zxm-pi_ | the wowzer part was that my face was pressed against the power supply vents as i put pcs on desk backwards as i needed access to all the cables at back and was reaching around to front of pc to turn it on at the time | 13:09 |
| MattJ | I had a guilt about the damaged cable, so eventually called someone in. A lot of insulation tape later and it was declared safe *shrug* :) | 13:10 |
| zxm-pi_ | i finished that day with zero adrenaline in reserve :-P | 13:11 |
| daftykins | :D | 13:11 |
| zxm-pi_ | managed to fall of seat and roll under desk and pull oak stool over head before it exploded. | 13:12 |
| daftykins | can't really glean anything new from the link unfortunately, will just have to source some gear to test with | 13:14 |
| zxm-pi_ | i think one takeaway from what i can see is that copper is betterer :-) | 13:15 |
| diddledan | for PoE, I would surmise that copper be preferable to fibre :-p | 13:16 |
| daftykins | short of slicing into an existing cable and trying to see if it's copper coated aluminium though... assuming you can even see it visibly... i dunno | 13:16 |
| zxm-pi_ | there was a time when copper was too expensive for wiring so they used aluminium iirc. old cables of the sort are sub par | 13:16 |
| diddledan | rip it all out and start again ;-p | 13:17 |
| zxm-pi_ | someone somewhere has devised a simple test for this. probably an electrician | 13:17 |
| daftykins | hehe, well it's a huge house with all this in-situ to run their old legacy phone system, i can just pinch use of the cabling to run other things - not gonna get replaced if it isn't up to it, i'd just have to move to PoE injectors if things failed | 13:18 |
| daftykins | no idea of even the route they take throughout in order to guess the length of runs | 13:19 |
| daftykins | diddledan: oh hi there! i was gonna link you up to a zipped copy of the site in case any further edits get made, i managed to spot a .php on the wrong page name in the last and fixed 'er up for the one i popped under /test2/ \o/ | 13:19 |
| zxm-pi_ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7TJfn82lU aluminium v copper cat 5 | 13:20 |
| * daftykins glances | 13:20 | |
| diddledan | my brother's BT line is CCA | 13:20 |
| daftykins | "i'm a youtuber, i have a really irritating intro and everything" | 13:20 |
| diddledan | "simply set fire to it" | 13:22 |
| daftykins | this is advice i can get behind | 13:22 |
| zxm-pi_ | old aluminium cable oxidises and will have bit rot so drop packets | 13:23 |
| zxm-pi_ | that's a start that's non destructive | 13:23 |
| diddledan | I hate rotten bits | 13:23 |
| daftykins | London BT engineer i spoke to mentioned he lived on a CCA / whole aluminium street | 13:25 |
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| diddledan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znoAHsCzRV8 | 21:22 |
| daftykins | a pal's wife is a medical translator | 21:24 |
| daftykins | i think i just found out how she gets paid, the money just enters her body | 21:24 |
| daftykins | ;) | 21:43 |
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