| daftykins | sheesh 3 support calls all at once, what a Monday | 10:04 |
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| daftykins | glad one has a young enough lad that can work out the basics, had to change the subnet in use at an opticians yesterday ahead of plans to provide VPN access | 10:09 |
| daftykins | i was redoing some cabling yesterday there, someone had gone off-spec with the colour coding causing both ends to be done >_< | 10:10 |
| zxmpi | surely you had your trusty cable tester and crimper to redo the ends? :-) | 11:03 |
| daftykins | zxmpi: well not a crimper, i refuse to put solid core into 8P8Cs... preferring wall socket modules to make a trusty and reliable connection! | 12:09 |
| daftykins | but it was between those + the patch panel that had to be redone | 12:10 |
| zxmpi | but also raises the question, who goes off spec? colour blind? an idiot? :-P | 12:40 |
| daftykins | a colour blind sparky definitely made for an interesting job a couple of years ago, somehow the PoE cables would work for a bit but then fail a day or so after, despite the wrong order | 12:42 |
| daftykins | once i put one on spec it was nice and reliable | 12:42 |
| penguin42 | huh that's interesting behaviour | 12:55 |
| daftykins | yeah i don't get how it could even begin to work once | 12:56 |
| penguin42 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_over_Ethernet#Standard_implementation says it's commoned across the pairs; and then through a diode bridge to cope with crossover cables; so hmm | 13:02 |
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