Today is my birthday and I’m spending it knocking out a task that has been nagging me for months. I had originally tucked an outdoor ethernet cable between the house and shop. I wasn’t able to get 10Gbps speeds to link between the two due to what I thought was distance, so I ran a fiber cable and combined them in a cable conduit that had been sitting on the grass for months.
The reason all of this is pointless is simple. If I had made the switch from Netgear to Cisco before buying the fiber cable, I would have known that Cisco switches link at that distance just fine. Now I have a 10Gbps copper connection and a 10Gbps fiber connection that’s not really needed.
I am not sure why I chose my birthday to dig a ditch, but I am glad it’s done.
