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>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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@mint
>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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