Home NetworkingEnglish · 11 months ago

How bad are scotchlocks?

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How bad are scotchlocks?

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Home NetworkingEnglish · 11 months ago

AT&T came today to connect their router to the ONT device. Installer connects two fragments of cat 6 with scotchlocks. Do they really expect gigabit to work over this? Am I being silly?

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They were told in training not to use scotchloks in this situation, but they did it anyway.

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