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Had a client yesterday at a small office who taught me a cheap fix for flaky network drops
He showed me how he crimps his own RJ45 ends with a boot that has a little metal shield inside, and said it stopped all his ping loss. Has anyone else run into that trick for cutting down on noise in long cable runs?
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lisa_grant23d ago
Ha! So he fixed his drops with a tiny tin hat for cables.
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xenar1423d ago
My neighbor tried something similar with aluminum foil on his router, swore it boosted the signal by half. Didn't work for squat but he kept testing it for a solid week. Funny how people get stuck on their little theories, isn't it?
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jessicaw545d ago
Totally agree that people get weirdly attached to random fixes. But honestly that metal shield in the boot is a real thing though, it's not just tin foil magic. I've seen it work in older buildings where the wiring is all beat up and the interference is bad. The shield grounds out some of the noise that leaks in from fluorescent lights or nearby power cables. It's not going to fix a bad crimp or a cable that's too long but it can help with that random packet loss that drives you crazy. I'd trust a proper shielded connector over wrapping foil around the router any day, at least that has a real engineering reason behind it.
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