Recent content by KaiserTom

I worked for an ISP, so.... Yeah pretty much, wouldn't surprise me.

Anything to do with POE in my experience seems to fail pretty often. Not sure what it is about them. Maybe I've just dealt with cheap devices. But even some expensive switches seem to fail on their POE too, either port by port or the entire POE board in it. But still functional otherwise.

If you really want to stick with copper, they make extended distance Cat 6 cables, I know Superior Essex does with Powerwise, which is 22AWG, but none that hit 300m. There's other brands too. Usually all only do 200m at abysmal speeds, 1M or 10M, which is enough for some cameras or access...

Want to see what happens when you try to crimp the wrong RJ-45 onto solid copper? It glances off the wires and all the contacts shift. Had to pull and replace a handmade patch from a camera because of it. And a basic tester said it was a completely fine cable, electrically. The certifier...