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    (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:38:25 JST 
   >finally got my own network camble crimper
   >make a couple test cables
   >time to test them, put a spare network card in my PC and grab the neighbor's laptop, boot some linux iso and connect them together
   >no carrier
   >connect the cable directly to my router
   >100 mbps
   >check lspci
   >Fast Ethernet Controller
   The laptop was made well into the late 2000s if not 2010s, gigabit should've been ubiquitous at this point already. Either way, apparently this Marvell Yukon chip has trouble autonegotiating with some other cards, I eventually managed to extend my cable to fit into one of my mini-PCs, and everything's working as intended fullspeed.
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:40:45 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint no that's not a joke there were poverty laptops in the 2010s and some desktops in the late 00s for sure with 100mbit only :blobcatjoy:
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:41:49 JST 

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     @PurpCat I once got some cheapo USB-C hub that adds HDMI, a couple USB ports and an Ethernet. Guess what speed it had?
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:51:17 JST Pawlicker

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     @mint they will cut corners at any cost, I'm convinced there has to be piles of rtl8139s and AX88772s in warehouses
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 06:51:55 JST feld

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     @mint @PurpCat you can stream 4K on 100mbit and forcing 100mbit can make it more reliable on terrible long cable runs so that kinda sounds like something you'd put in a TV/display computer
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     Forest of Enchantment (forestofenchantment@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 07:10:10 JST Forest of Enchantment

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     • feld
     @PurpCat @feld @mint How much would a gigabit controller cost in the 2000s? Always found it odd that the X360 only had Fast Ethernet.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 07:10:10 JST feld

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     @Forestofenchantment @PurpCat @mint new one like $60 if I remember correctly, probably around 2007
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     Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 07:10:11 JST Pawlicker

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     @feld @mint it's literally due to cost, for consoomer computers they use the cheap shit since who needs gigabit anyhow.
     
     Also new laptops need a USB dongle...
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:40:00 JST 

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     @laurel Not that one, it's just of those Celeron shitboxes with a bunch of NICs. I used one as a router before, but J1900 apparently wasn't up to the task of routing a gigabit PPPoE connection, so I got another one on J4125 and delegated that one to being an I2P floodfill node among other things.
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     laurel (laurel@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 08:40:01 JST laurel

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     >extend my cable to fit into one of my mini-PCs
     You mean like the one in the picture with a Ryzen processor? If so, what do you think of it? I was thinking of buying one.
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