{"id":618,"date":"2002-06-14T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2002-06-14T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2020-08-19T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:44:13","slug":"hubba-hubba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/2002\/06\/14\/hubba-hubba\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubba Hubba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our replacement network hub arrived today. A netgear DS116, with 16 ports to replace one of the 8-port ones that died. I removed the surviving 8-port hub and installed the 16 port, and now we have 15 ports available for computers to plug into. This is actually 3 more than we had with the two 8-port hubs, because 2 ports are used up when you stack the two hubs together, and one of the ports on the old one wasn&#8217;t working anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t be too rich, too thin, or have too many network ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the new hub installed and running, we discovered that my &#8220;temporary&#8221; network cable labeling system was beginning to break down. The white electrical tape with black felt pen numbers was peeling off, leaving a nasty sticky residue and some doubt as to which cable was which.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to check out Home Depot and Radio Shack for cable labelling systems. It turns out that my ideal solution &#8211; clear shrink wrap over paper labels &#8211; was not going to work because of a) lack of availability of clear shrink wrap, and b) a minor technical difficulty in that the shrink wrap sleeve would have to be of a diameter sufficienty large to clear the RJ45 plug on the end of the cable, but then have to shrink more than 50% to be snug on the fairly thin CAT5 cable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/cable_hub.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, plan B &#8211; inkjet printed labels, cut up with scissors and then taped to the cable with transparent packing tape. We&#8217;ll see how long that lasts&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh &#8211; and while I was out, I got a haircut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our replacement network hub arrived today. A netgear DS116, with 16 ports to replace one of the 8-port ones that died. I removed the surviving 8-port hub and installed the 16 port, and now we have 15 ports available for computers to plug into. This is actually 3 more than we had with the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}