peer-to-peer Cat6 cabling

#Caturday

@yurnidiot well I’ll not not try this when re-wiring the house….

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Cat6? where are the other 5?

@futurebird they got lost under the deck

@futurebird Yeah, about that.

It took a few attempts to get the wormhole calibrated correctly. 😬🫠

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@yurnidiot network engineering cat
@yurnidiot  One of few times someone has got "their" cat to do something useful!  
@yurnidiot Read somewhere that ferrets are very good for wiring planes.
Felicia, the Fermilab Ferret

In 1971, this ferret played a key role in the construction of particle accelerators at Fermilab's Meson Laboratory. As sections of vacuum chamber were connected together, Felicia would run through…

Boing Boing
@BenCotterill @yurnidiot would that be better or worse than what Boeing has been doing?
@yurnidiot Absolute genius! My cat would not be that reliable though, even for treats 😂

@yurnidiot Personally I want to find a way to monetize being cat furniture. I spend way too much time being bed, chair, or ground zero for a slap fight to be doing it for free.

#pets #cats #CatsOfMastodon

@yurnidiot cat will take away jobs now lol
@yurnidiot hmm isn't that Cat6+1 = Cat7?

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What if the cat gets tangled up down there? 😯

@yurnidiot Finally a clever use case for #cats... ^

@yurnidiot I didn't think the "get a cat and tie a string around it" technique from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia would work

https://youtu.be/iQ1qzoPV6V8?feature=shared

Turns out, I was wrong

Cat in the wall

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@jonas_trostle @yurnidiot Exactly what this made me think of. Charlie just needed a thicker piece of string! The inventor of Kitten Mittens knows a thing or two about cats! They're following him around these days.
@yurnidiot Always run cables through ducting, people!
@yurnidiot Cat5e most likely; Cat6 is too stiff for that, and Cat5e fully suffices for GigE and even more.
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This post after a gazillion of #caturday pictures had me a bit confused 😂
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But then I watch the video and 🤔
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@yurnidiot Time for a CAT-5 cable 😜
@yurnidiot that is suuuuper dangerous for the cat please don't ever do this
@yurnidiot they use this method on ships or subs? I believe, using ferrets
@yurnidiot I remember the version with the Indiana Jones theme music 🤣

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Quel est l'intérêt d'emmerder un animal, à part pour faire une vidéo débile ?

@yurnidiot ...can I borrow your cat? i need to run some cables.
@yurnidiot I've known people who have trained rats to do that through walls.
@yurnidiot But why are these called cat 6 cables if only one cat is needed?
@yurnidiot Does anybody now, if hamsters works for ductworks for cable?
@yurnidiot I once did that with a cat to run a hose under the house. Since the cat couldn't drag the hose, I first tried fishing line to the cat's collar. It worked a charm 😎
@yurnidiot This is actually how Hutchinson Telecom broke BT's de-facto monopoly on phone service in the UK in 1983—they bought the rights to use the disused pneumatic power pipes under the Square Mile in London, then trained ferrets to drag cable between sites. This let them sell non-BT leased line service to City trading desks, and was the first crack in British Telecom's post-privatization national monopoly.
@yurnidiot I'll have to remember that in case I ever need to wire a building.