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    13 hours ago

    Wifi being down is just a minor inconvenience for tech oriented people. Spare some lives and just contact your local geek/nerd.

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    16 hours ago

    Is the Wi-Fi down, or is Internet access down? Because you’re probably gonna need a gerbil instead of that hamster

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      ugh didn’t you hear about the CVE affecting v1.2.823-1.2.967 though? Those hamsters had missing input validation which could be exploited to overflow the buffer size and execute remote inputs. Your router is basically toast at that point.

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      5 hours ago

      Is that a Qualcomm chipset? Sorry bud, you’re gonna have to wait 8-12 business decades for that firmware to be supported.

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      17 hours ago

      Hello I accidentally sacrificed Hamster Pro Max to my regular Pro router. There weren’t any warnings or errors it just took its soul, and now when I turn it on the light flashes red 3 times and for a few seconds I can see the eighth circle of hell where Diviners are forced to walk backwards blinded by their own tears.

      What I want to ask is, can I extend the timer to at least a minute? This super cute witch winked at me, but when I try to ask her out all I hear are screams of the damned and then the connection goes down please help me.

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        17 hours ago

        Fediverse threads are not a valid support inquiry channel. Please write your question in blood and burn it under the full moon to submit a support request.

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              2 hours ago

              Notice: server upgrades are scheduled 2/28 and will be competed 2/30. The accessible support system will be unavailable during this time, please use the regular support system. We apologize for the inconvenience.

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            17 hours ago

            As an alternative, please download and print out a picture of a full moon and fax your blood to us in a PDF

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      20 hours ago

      Stupid router. v1.18.345 is the higher one. The hamster must have introduced breaking changes if they’re incompatible.

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    I dunno when it became the norm to say the WiFi’s down when it’s actually totally fine and unrelated to the internet connection being down.

    People at my work have said this even though they’re using docks plugged with Cat 5.

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      Probably because ISPs like to fob you off with suggestions of poor wifi rather than address the actual internet issue you contact them about.

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      Non-technical people don’t have any idea what a LAN is, and can’t imagine any reason for WiFi to exist other than to get their device on the Internet.

      So WiFi becomes a synonym for “Internet connection”, perfectly interchangeably.

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        And in most operating systems the wifi icon turns into some other error icon if there’s no internet. So I can see the confusion.

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      Cat5? Not even Cat5e? You sure the problem isn’t just that their connection is 10Mbps or worse and we sites aren’t just taking a couple minutes to load?

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        Yeah, e. Just didn’t bother with the variance. Though, could even be Cat6 for all I know, never looked.

        Almost just said Cat but figured that may confuse people. Our engineers keeping the network purring like a kitty.

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        Well if they’re only getting 10Mbps over Cat5 then the cable’s busted, since normally they’re rated for 2.5GbE.

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          Nope, Cat5 was nominally rated for 100 MHz, but was superseded by Cat5e for greater reliability at such speeds

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            The Category 5e specification improves upon the Category 5 specification by further mitigating crosstalk. The bandwidth (100 MHz) and physical construction are the same between the two, and most Cat 5 cables actually happen to meet Cat 5e specifications even though they are not certified as such.

            I did kinda mean it as a joke originally, but yeah 5/5e are the same outside of crosstalk resistance.

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      First of all, fuck Rogers with a rusty statue of a cactus, and second, fuck them again.

      I don’t understand how a company that big can be that bad at uptime. I moved to Teksavvy years ago and haven’t had any outages since. I refuse to do direct business with any of the big three.

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      18 hours ago

      If you it’s your neighborhood cat, then it’s probably only cat 1 or cat 2, so it won’t be of much use to you unless you wanna play Zork on your local community college’s mainframe. That might work.

      Back in the day, the fuzzy ones had to sacrifice bandwidth for cuteness.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯