Episode Details

A twelve-meter Cat6 run terminates badly and quietly falls back to 100 megabit — the classic silent failure where the link light comes on and everything looks fine. Daniel already owns two SFP+ switches, a pair of 10GBASE-SR multimode transceivers, and an OM3 LC cable that works between them. So why not run the fiber through the conduit instead? This episode digs into how fiber actually handles tight bends compared to copper, whether transceivers stored in a Ziploc bag are still usable, how to attach fiber to fish tape without destroying it, and when a cleaning pen actually earns its keep. Along the way: why 100 megabit is a diagnostic signal rather than a mystery, why kinked copper can pass continuity and still cap your speed, and the pull sock trick that lets you skip termination entirely. Episode #221570 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/221570