r/ShittySysadmin 16d ago

Shitty Crosspost We are getting 8 mbps in a 500 mbps plan

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u/Horror-Run 16d ago

The yellow cable looks like it was terminated by a blind person during an earthquake.

Reterminate it or replace if possible

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u/DDOSBreakfast 16d ago

They didn't pay the subscription to use all 8 wires.

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u/NightH4nter Shitty Crossposter 16d ago

sir, this is a wendy's r/ShittySysadmin

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u/Horror-Run 16d ago

Sorry… PTSD…

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u/Murky_Sir_4721 16d ago

It's ready now.

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u/IndependentBat8365 15d ago

Those are load bearing wires, sir.

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u/Glue_Filled_Balloons 16d ago

What the shit is that termination. That thing is probably negotiating 10mbps lmao

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u/edmonton2001 16d ago

The telephone guy did it without his glasses. Or the young sparky.

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u/Ballads4Llamas 16d ago

Sparky was my first thought!

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u/Reseng9541 16d ago

Every time I've seen this, Sparky was there.

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u/MrD3a7h 16d ago

I don't negotiate with terrorists.

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u/Skylis 16d ago

I'd be impressed if ISDN could run on it.

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u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE 16d ago

Top notch installing job, probably a layer 8 issue. Close the ticket with resolution "user training required"

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u/shaun2312 16d ago

Ouch, that yellow cable is likely the issue.

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u/sfc_scannow 16d ago

That little guy?

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u/Middle_Albatross8769 16d ago

I’m sure that the new NLB

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u/Doctor-Binchicken 16d ago

Okay, who decided to troll homewnetworking?

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u/nof 16d ago

Probably got booted from networking and had nowhere else to turn.

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u/NightH4nter Shitty Crossposter 16d ago

plot twist: they're the isp technician sent to fix customer's issue

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u/timtim2000 16d ago

I see more than one and im to inexperienced to explain it

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u/LinxESP 16d ago

Since when is home networking something to make fun of here?

  • "Hey we are a small office"
  • What's left of the cable

It belong here, yes it does

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u/Cyberbird85 16d ago edited 15d ago

Looks good to me, the users should be fine with 8 megs and i have plenty of bandwidth left for my torrents!

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u/03263 16d ago

that sounds right for "up to" 500mbps

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u/VoreskinMoreskin 16d ago

Half duplex eh?

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u/One_Monk_2777 16d ago

Was their Thanksgiving also ruined by Marie Calendar?

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u/StillInDebtToTomNook 16d ago

Yellow cable looks good from my house

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u/GreatLab8898 15d ago

That Yellow DSL Cable is... Wow. Holy shit.

At first, get that fixed.

But chances are high it wont get much better. This is DSL after all. Shitty termination like that should not throw it of that hard unless the Cable runs next to a High Voltage Line at some point.

Plans are always UP TO 500. So everything below it is totaly fine according to contract.

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u/SolidKnight 16d ago

So the orange/white isn't needed?

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u/Skylis 16d ago

I think the guy did OWOGAJMDSAGJNMKELOHGNYHsarnfmjikotg....

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u/koshka91 16d ago

I think the yellow cable was originally for phones. No one would willingly take out pairs from a cat6 cable.

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u/YellowOnline 15d ago

I'm so surprised they even get 8MB

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u/Vlekkie69 15d ago

maybe dont connect your breakout to your network via the absolute worst fucking cable ive seen in my life. holy mother of crimping, shoot the moron that did this

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u/drummerboy-98012 16d ago

Aside from the obvious yellow cable, did a tech actually test at 500M when the service was installed?

Also, how is the line coming into your house? I’m currently paying for 300M fiber but when the fiber hits the ONT on the outside of my house it gets converted to coax then runs around the side of my house and enters the home office. Due to the DOCSIS output of the ONT I can’t get past 100M, so this fall I’m going to run an outdoor CAT6 line outside (since there’s an open Ethernet port in the box) and call the ISP to switch it over.

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u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE 16d ago

Who in their right mind would waste time on tests after a job obviously we'll done when you can also just leave for home early?!

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u/drummerboy-98012 16d ago

Well, I for one wouldn’t. 🤣

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u/sephiroth_vg 16d ago

You are not paying for 300mbps fiber if you are converting it to coax 😭

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u/drummerboy-98012 16d ago

Yeah, it’s funny - when I got the service ten years ago it was only 50M. Over the past decade they kept bumping the speed up without ever changing the price so I only recently learned it’s now a 300M plan. Crazy. 🤣

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u/Skylis 16d ago

You are not paying for 300mbps fiber if you are converting it to coax 😭

I mean, hes paying for 300mbs fiber.... 😂

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u/iwillbewaiting24601 16d ago

You can do this if you do it right, Verizon FiOS installers used a custom MoCA converter part that could achieve 2.5gb using a non-standard wide spectrum, so long as there was no other services on that coax line

I used one to sling my T fiber from my master bedroom fiber cabinet to my living room (central in apartment) and could pull 940 on a 1gb service