More than a decade ago, as part of a furnace installation in our basement, I ran some ethernet cable through the ceiling in the study so I could have a wired connection between my printer and the computer.
A few years ago things stopped working, shortly after I hung some pictures, so I thought I'd skewered the cable with a nail.
Tonight I decided it was time to pull that cable and in the process snake a new one through the wall. But it also gave me an opportunity to test the nifty cable tester I got for Christmas.
I plugged things in and the tester told me the cable was good.
Not believing the lying tester, I turned off the wifi on my computer, plugged the cable into it and into the network switch I'm installing, and the cable worked just fine.
So there's less cable snaking I have to do as I build the network. Pretty cool.
And wow, the camera on my phone is terrible.
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