I know I'm necroposting but as an aspiring network engineer I think this is the best channel on KZbin. I learn multiple seriously interesting things every video, that daughter card blew my mind for no reason. Keep this up man!

5:58 - foreshadowing! Clab is engineering an aol messenger server)

You don’t need another router, just a layer 3 switch or a layer 2switch with a router on a stick!

Not sure if you learned yet, but spinning hard drives dont like bangs like that and servers nearby may even get offended and quit!

napster didn't have servers between the users holding the music, napster was p2p. The reason you say Naspter wasn't 'as big as limewire or kazaa' was because the people who knew about napster were the ones who taught people this stuff existed. One of me taught 10 of my friends downloading music and videos was a thing... when I started you downloaded from xdcc

If you want more of these, look up the Fore/Marconi ES-2810. Exact same switch, just rebranded...

little bs vs BIG Bs, o as we told customers, they can make your internet service sound faster than it really is.

GUI reminds me of Ubiq Unifi

I wasted $300 back in the day on a BEFN2PS4 just to try to get voip. Net2phone required prepay and international call quality was so poor to be unusable.

One of the first job i got at the company i work for (and that was mid 2000s) was to replace the print server. That thing had a bunch of Isa cards, each with a massive connector running the entire card height, and with an octopus cable to 32 db25 serial, which where then converted to db9, gender switched, null modem, converted to rj, sent through the building rj cabling,and then convertedback to db9, genderand db25 before being connected to the local oki520 printer, sometimes 100+ meters from the server. I. Serial ruled in the day....

Even more scope creep would have been to install the raspis in the PSU compartments on the modulators with a 12v to usb converter. And 3d print a backplate for the usb/rj45 side on the back of the unit. and then route the composite internally. For even more flair lightpipe the raspi leds to the front. The raspis might pull less power than an old GPU in that server.

How are the robo/spoof callers changing their caller ID and phone number

I don't know if you figured out the fiber interconnect problem or not, but I saw another comment mentioning the cleaning click. Definitely do that. The other thing that I can think is maybe it is a differential between the connectors and the fiber jacks. I don't have historical stuff about when it came into play, but there are SPC and APC type connectors and jacks. SPC is a direct connect, sort of like putting two pencil eraser heads together. APC is angled. You have to look really close, but you can see that there is a slight angle on the extensions that come out of the connector. The inside of the jack is also angled. They need to fit together so that the light can follow the path with least reflection. APC is specialized for minimizing reflection. I don't have exact numbers on how much better it is, but it is what it is. The point being that the jack and the connectors have to be the same. APC or SPC. Then of course you've already looked at the transmit and receive issue. Somebody else already made a comment about the wavelengths and compatibility between the transceivers. I would think it should be in the documentation what type of cable, single or multimode, and what type of connector should be used. But these are ancient and you already said the documentation is sparse. Can't even imagine the appropriate documentation for the appropriate version of the fiber modules. I'm typing too much, but hopefully somebody else didn't mention SPC and APC. They may have. I just can't read through all the comments as many as there are. Good luck!

“Precursor to USB” - ummm no

Back when linksys actually made quality products

I'm not surprised that there are people maintaining prometheus with solaris. I work in an industrial environment that has lots of old and weird systems from various manufacturers. We use prometheus to track a lot of our systems, and I know for a fact that we have a weird old computer that reads x-ray gauge data that runs solaris on a sparc cpu.

When ORiNOCO was in business, they would do this, installing cards in boxes for commercial use. We would crack open the box, disconnect the patch antenna, hook up a bigger, outdoor antenna, and button it up. We'd take the PCMCIA cards with the modded antenna and an ISA adapter, loading it into desktop computers. We relied on the router at the ISP office to keep the wireless clients isolated from each other. Those times we were not concerned with home networking as extensive as we are now.

CDE !!! Used that at uni 25yrs ago via an NCD client. At the time, seemed quite clean/simple after years of Win98 fluorescence… Happy times learning C++ on these…😁

The Cisco Aironet 1230AG access points were just a 2.4Ghz access point with an A PCMCIA card with an additional antennas in the bottom for 5Ghz connectivity. Google AIR-RM21A-N-K9 / AIR-RM22A-N-K9 to see one.

LOL man i dont have a clue what your doing and 20 years ago i would of thought you where and ALIEN if i seen a video like this or if i seen you doing this in person lol this shit is crazy im sure its simple to understand once you get it but yeah thanks for blowing my mind better then watching this bullshit now a days lol like MR BEAST so stupid brainwashing shit they put out to these kids these days is crazy so thanks for being you and not a fool sorry im high as shit

im confused what is all this for whats the point i need to know do you get better internet this way or faster speeds lol not sure what your doing wish i did

My partner was fresh out of college in 1998 and hired at a medical company who needed software written for them she just told me that she was only allowed 10 of these so God only knows how big the budget was 😅

If I rememeber my childhood geekery correctly, once 10Base-2 and 10Base-T came on the scene, the idea behind providing only an AUI port was to save money on expensive network cards by making you only buy the transciever circuitry for the kind of physical-layer Ethernet (eg. thicknet, thinnet, twisted pair) that you actually intended to use. Of course, integration and economies of scale being what they are, it quickly became cheaper to just include all three ports on your 3Com EtherLink III or what have you than to make you buy a card and a separate MAU.

I remember running a bbs during the dial-up days.

not sure if anyone mentioned but at 22:25 thats usually a power supply issue not liking the voltage or under amps possibly the board as well not accepting any power

I'd have to go look in my old hardware box but I am pretty sure I have not one, but TWO working BEFSR41 v1 wired routers from 1999 when they were first released. I remember being SOOO excited because I didn't have to use proxy software anymore.

I just got a Compaq Proliant 1600, Dual Pentium 300 mhz with 5 SCSI drives i array. I had the same issues with Bios and stuff. I installed Windows 2000 and made an ISO image of the SmartStart CD. Installed all drivers and software in Windows 2000. Worked perfectly with the Disk Array SCSI management.

It's a shame everything has become commoditized these days. Sun was really such a great company. They have done a lot for *nix and opensource.

12:46. interesting. So that sounds like a large security oversight back then lol. Some random person could go onto the same network as the switch and factory reset it via the Intel Device View (if they had a copy), even though the switch has a password set.. Nice

A/S/L? ☠️

I chatted on Napster. Noob. 😂❤

This looks like a really great solution...in need of a problem.

You can pull up the HARDWARE ID from the windows device manager.

Seeing those musical notes made me wonder if this thing could be used to build a Pi controlled Karaoke display. Would be a pretty cool project. The changes to text colour and background could be used to indicate where you are in a line by constantly refreshing the output. Fun to think about these things.

"Feel like it's not good if a pizza place is calling _you_." Whatever the story behind that call, truer words were never spoken.

@23:50 I used to have a 13 slot Cisco 5500 that had 12 slots filled, we always called it the Christmas tree and it was fun to watch on the very rare occasion it had to power cycle. Best most robust switch I ever managed too, I was sad when it had to go due to voip.

You should really get yourself a set of the clicky fiber cleaners. You'll need one for SC connectors the ones you show in the video), and a smaller one for LC (smaller, used in modern gear). It's probably a good idea to give each port a few clicks before you try to connect something, this gear has been sitting in storage for a very long time without any protective covers on the optics. Speaking of covers, it's generally a good idea to order a bag of the matching connector covers to protect your gear. The other module in your intel switch still has the covers installed. They're quite cheap on ebay or aliexpress. Also, the way you toss around the fiber cables without any protection made me cringe so hard. You should try to keep your fiber as clean as possible, so no touching on the "tip" of the connector and you should always keep the protective cap on it whenever it's unplugged.

Can we get a performance test XD

That looks like it would be more of an edge switch than a DC switch, messy cables are the default in closets. For the fiber connection double check the auto-negotiation and flow control settings for the interfaces between both devices match as the defaults may not. Generally you want to match the yellow (single mode) fiber with the LX gbics and the aqua (multimode) fiber with SX gbics.

Maybe you need to enable the fiber on the Intel side?

For the Bits vs Bytes discussion: If you go the route of marketing being responsible for that, its probably not to make it sound more, but just to protect themselves from the average user who doesn't understand protocol overhead, so for them its just "some other unit" and not "they are scamming me, because I only get about 110 MB/s through my 125 MB/s (so gigabit) link", since they usually only observe payload data (e.g. during file transfers).

Ahh the good old days. I always used to just copy the inf files across, i hated those installers eating memmory up when it could be run by windows. I feel all nostalgic 😊

I'm in the unfortunate position of running 10gig network with a bunch of linux fileservers and windows application servers and it's so bad. The bits and bytes in networking is rough, always tripping me up, I've declared binary bankruptcy. Nothing is consistent. Different places in my linux fileservers use bits, bytes, base-10, base-8, some force specific prefixes, a lot of places are just wrong about what unit they're using. And then I go over to Windows land and, Microsoft has also declared binary bankruptcy. Parts of Windows use base 10 numbers, but Microsoft doesn't like to use proper base-10 SI prefixes. I'm sure there's exceptions but basically Microsoft never uses MiB when they mean MiB, but sometimes they do mean MB, and the only way to know is to notice that the numbers don't look right. Which is a lot harder when everywhere else you're seeing related numbers is giving you a different weird choice! I can't convert all this stuff in my head in real time!

I'm gonna stick up for the black disc drive. I like it. It's a little unrefined, but it's visually distinct so it's easy to spot, it matched the dark shadows created by those holes. I don't personally like things that are very silvery, but the design of that unit is kinda nice. If it were grey/silver on the disc drive though, I think it would look a lot more dated. The black in complement to the shadows of the honeycomb circles helps visually break up what would otherwise be quite bland, like shoes that match you belt but not the rest of your outfit. So yeah, I'm gonna stick up for the little drive, I think he looks rather fetching, no need to bully him :')

A password you can reset remotely without authentication. That's, probably not great lol.

That last error you had on linux looked like you just missed sudo again, it otherwise seemed to be working. Also a modern-ish 32bit linux distro would probably also detect this card, afaik they dont usually remove drivers. Just discovered your channel, great content!

22:53 sad

These look cool, even though they are outdated.

I thought that Intel got out of the networking space? 5:52

very cool