200M fibre drop and networking cab are at opposite ends of the house. When the drop was put in, I only had cat5 available to join the two. Distance makes only 100M link possible with the crappy cable to hand.

Through the magic of being cheap and having one of these bad boys spare - two crappy cables with this in-between gets the full beans out of the connection.

It's been 3 months. It's shoved in a corner that the cats (fluffy version) love to sit in. I have cat6 to hand now. I don't need this anymore. I can fix it properly.

But it works and I just cba to do a new direct run.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I maintain that even for LANs 100Mb/s is actually more than enough for the majority of users as long as the latency is decent.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

If I'm paying for 200M, I'm damn well gonna use it :)

I can actually run a few services now on the 200/200 that would be intolerable on the old 30/10. Like streaming and grabbing chunky files away from home in reasonable time. Was a big jump for us.