Supposed to have 10 to 14 km range. But probably at very low data rates. https://www.facebook.com/reel/936216961243959?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘Datacomm’ Category:
2024-03-30 MX20T Link Switch Port Tester
A long time ago when we were going to Cat5 UTP, I had a lot of these MX20Ts left over. So I made up a 15 pin plug with the negative 9VDC on pin 6 and positive on pin 13, and soldered the wires to the battery contacts. I taped the battery to the back
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2024-02-28 Smart Plugs, Power Strip
This is IoT internet of things. You can turn something on or off from anywhere. You can schedule it to turn on or off at certain times. Says, “…made my life 1000 times easier.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kasa-smartplugs-sale_l_65dcb876e4b0e4346d533b5d/amp
2024-01-10 SpaceX Satellite To Satellite Laser Links
SpaceX Reveals 8,000 satellite to satellite laser links. https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/starlink-video#:~:text=The%20’space%20laser’%20feature%2C,Gateway%20ground%20station%20on%20Earth.
2023-10-21 I Had To Get My Uverse Wiring Repaired
This Saturday I had to wait for first, an at&t tech to verify that the outage was in their cabling. Then he found that the problem was 585 feet upstream, and he didn’t do pole climbing, he had tondispatch someone from Construction who climbed poles and had a bucket truck that could access the cables
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2023-09-03 Ethernet And POTS Over The Same Pair
When I was in the Army in Germany, I worked at the switchboard. We had a few telephone lines between HQ where I was and other missile battalions. These were from the German telephone system. There weren’t enough telephone pairs so they ordered the transformers used to make phantom circuits and installed them at both
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2022-01-29 Court Upholds Calif Net Neutrality Law
Court upholds California Net Neutrality Law. This is a blow to the telecom providers, that wanted to throttle the speeds of users to make more money. https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-california-telecommunications-jerry-brown-2db073ce6d11c7274fd9c6291d3c411b
2021-07-08 FTC Stops Broadcomm’s Monopolism
Federal Trade Commission said Broadcomm bullied its customers into exclusive contracts in order to buy Broadcomm chips. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/07/broadcom-is-a-monopolist-ftc-orders-chipmaker-to-stop-illegal-tactics/?amp=1
2021-06-30 Starlink Worldwide In August
Starlink will be available worldwide in August. The terminal costs users $500 but costs SpaceX almost $1300 to make. They are partnering with two mobile carriers to provide backhaul service to remote cell sites. https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-said-starlink-will-be-available-worldwide-in-august/
2021-06-23 High Maintenance #3
Kate J. The guys had code words for some of the PITAs who frequently called the help desk. One lady, H.M.3 – high maintenance #3, kept asking for the cord replaced on her phone’s handset. I must’ve replaced it a half dozen times. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the cord, the network itself
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