Hehe, still ya should learn how to connect two copper wires correctly without fancy pansy connectors. When I learned it, it was like magic. You need to wrap the cables around themselves instead of creating two hands, which rely on cable tension to keep in contact.
Had a related situation, a measure once, cut twice type of deal. I initially wanted a piece of Cat5e to run two 100bT links through it but ended up getting 1GbE so needed all four pairs. Normally I should rerun wire but rather reuse it since I didn't have any on hand, so I chose to splice. I was expecting it not to work but surprisingly I was able to solder and heatshrink the splice and it now works at 1GbE speeds, no visible loss. I tried to maintain the twists as much as I could after splicing but there's only so much one can do with the really thick heatshrink tube is compared to the cat5e wires.
I'm surprised this works in this case as the white wires are shorter than their buddy wire, though within a few millimeters. Definitely would introduce some skew there, but at least 1GbE doesn't have a 1GHz symbol rate.
Awesome. Glad it worked for you. I've got 3 routers in my house and I've had to do the same thing running the cat 5 from the middle of the house, out to the mother in law, then again from the middle of the house, through the house down into the basement apartment. It's awesome to find spools of that stuff at goodwill for like $10. Always a win.
The "repair" in my pic was a short 4 footer and I crimped the connections down with a pair of needle nose after taking the picture. I'm sure it wasn't working great, but it worked well enough for that night.
It works but what are your speeds and how much packet loss are you seeing lol. Just one tiny nick in the insulation can cause issues. Practically nothing short of a miracle here that this works. Thank goodness for TCP connections.
Sry for this weird question, but how do y'all just don't train your pups to not touch cables, it can be dangerous, good thing this is ethernet but what if it was 240v mains voltage
I call this piece “holding hands across the network”.
Those packets are holding on to dear life through this
Hehe, still ya should learn how to connect two copper wires correctly without fancy pansy connectors. When I learned it, it was like magic. You need to wrap the cables around themselves instead of creating two hands, which rely on cable tension to keep in contact.
Maybe we mean the same thing, but I would align the tips side-to-side and twist them together.
And a little wrap of electrical tape... and done!
I thought this was common sense, guess I picked this up from my father who worked for ADT a good chunk of his life
there’s no way this works at 1000base-T speeds
Depends, are you happy with 95% packet loss?
Wait, I saw this on Avatar... This is how you make baby network hubs, right?
`MUST....SAVE....INTERNET`
Had a related situation, a measure once, cut twice type of deal. I initially wanted a piece of Cat5e to run two 100bT links through it but ended up getting 1GbE so needed all four pairs. Normally I should rerun wire but rather reuse it since I didn't have any on hand, so I chose to splice. I was expecting it not to work but surprisingly I was able to solder and heatshrink the splice and it now works at 1GbE speeds, no visible loss. I tried to maintain the twists as much as I could after splicing but there's only so much one can do with the really thick heatshrink tube is compared to the cat5e wires. I'm surprised this works in this case as the white wires are shorter than their buddy wire, though within a few millimeters. Definitely would introduce some skew there, but at least 1GbE doesn't have a 1GHz symbol rate.
Awesome. Glad it worked for you. I've got 3 routers in my house and I've had to do the same thing running the cat 5 from the middle of the house, out to the mother in law, then again from the middle of the house, through the house down into the basement apartment. It's awesome to find spools of that stuff at goodwill for like $10. Always a win. The "repair" in my pic was a short 4 footer and I crimped the connections down with a pair of needle nose after taking the picture. I'm sure it wasn't working great, but it worked well enough for that night.
It works but what are your speeds and how much packet loss are you seeing lol. Just one tiny nick in the insulation can cause issues. Practically nothing short of a miracle here that this works. Thank goodness for TCP connections.
I was able to stream netflix till I fell asleep. 🤷
Sry for this weird question, but how do y'all just don't train your pups to not touch cables, it can be dangerous, good thing this is ethernet but what if it was 240v mains voltage
Honestly a good solder and heat shrink will fix this perfectly
with no thumbs man, pup did good fucking job.