[11:24] hi de hi [12:27] \o/ [12:27] another rainy day here on the rock [12:31] rain predicted for later. sunny atm [12:33] sun in Ireland!? [12:35] it's a trap trying to lure people outside [12:44] :D [13:03] just look for the clouds with fake mustache and glasses [13:05] 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 [13:06] Connect, if no smoke alarms sound within 5 minutes, you're good [13:06] :D [13:06] I think regulations suggest 15 minutes, but pft [13:07] https://community.fs.com/blog/how-to-choose-cables-for-power-over-ethernet.html see if they are a match? [13:07] A couple of years ago I drilled a hole into a door frame [13:07] Then all the lights went out [13:08] i once turned on a pc and blew out power for whole industrial estate. a lot of magic smoke that day [13:08] Turns out the door frame was hollow, and there was a mains cable running inside it [13:08] wowzer [13:09] Electrician couldn't come right away, but resetting the RCD brought everything back [13:09] 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 [13:10] 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* :) [13:11] i finished that day with zero adrenaline in reserve :-P [13:11] :D [13:12] managed to fall of seat and roll under desk and pull oak stool over head before it exploded. [13:14] can't really glean anything new from the link unfortunately, will just have to source some gear to test with [13:15] i think one takeaway from what i can see is that copper is betterer :-) [13:16] for PoE, I would surmise that copper be preferable to fibre :-p [13:16] 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] there was a time when copper was too expensive for wiring so they used aluminium iirc. old cables of the sort are sub par [13:17] rip it all out and start again ;-p [13:17] someone somewhere has devised a simple test for this. probably an electrician [13:18] 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 [13:19] no idea of even the route they take throughout in order to guess the length of runs [13:19] 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/ [13:20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf7TJfn82lU aluminium v copper cat 5 [13:20] * daftykins glances [13:20] my brother's BT line is CCA [13:20] "i'm a youtuber, i have a really irritating intro and everything" [13:22] "simply set fire to it" [13:22] this is advice i can get behind [13:23] old aluminium cable oxidises and will have bit rot so drop packets [13:23] that's a start that's non destructive [13:23] I hate rotten bits [13:25] London BT engineer i spoke to mentioned he lived on a CCA / whole aluminium street === alan_g_ is now known as alan_g [21:22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znoAHsCzRV8 [21:24] a pal's wife is a medical translator [21:24] i think i just found out how she gets paid, the money just enters her body [21:43] ;)