I’ve been silently moaning about the transfer speeds to my storage devices.

Only today did I think to plug the network cable directly into the mesh satellite and not into a switch and over Powerline. 10x speed boost.

I’m an idiot and I’m posting here so I don’t get too cocky next time.

Feel free to laugh.

(“Advice” flair just on the tiny chance that someone else could be helped. )

  • joetaxpayer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Hardly. There are infinite stories of mistakes we’ve all made. Kind of you to share the warning.

    Well over a decade ago, some complained about their speed, thinking they should see closer to 1Gb/s with their set up. I asked them to look at their ethernet connectors, 4 conductor or 8? These were 10/100, just 4 copper wires, as that was enough to get 100Mb/s.

    They replied “I am a moron.” No they weren’t either. Easy to miss something when there are so many bits of stuff going on.