Re: Another Ridiculous Cable Problem

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

Whenever I have problems I never suspect the cables.  Never.
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Why should I?  What is a fucking cable?  It is copper or aluminum
strands soldered to a connector.  What could be fucking simpler?
Metal strands don't break under ordinary use.  Soldered connections
should never break either -- if done even remotely properly.
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Consequently, when my USB keyboard kept disconnecting on one of my
GNU/Linux machines I suspected only the keyboard.  I ripped it out
and replace it with another.  But the problem recurred.
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So I yanked out the USB extension cable and plugged the keyboard
directly, i.e. with no extension.
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The problem disappeared.
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My mini-PC's cables had grown into a rat's nest. So I unplugged
everything, got rid of a few data and power cables, rerouted them,
and then...

... no network.

But the streaming to the teevees worked. Rebooted the fiber link
and the AT&T modem anyway. No go.

Plugged the PC directly into the wireless router with a different
cable, no problem. Then plugged the wireless router into the
ethernet switch, then to the PC. No problem. Back to the original
setup, no network. Replugged the old network cable (different
port) at both ends. Fixed.

An hour well spent :-D

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