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To be fair I've got some $2500 switches. OK they're layer 3, run routing protocols, have 48 POE ports and dual power supplies, and I still think they're overpriced, but it's fairly standard.

A single power supply 5 port unmanaged switch though? Hilarious. Make you you get the right ethernet cables that run in the right direction

https://forums.whathifi.com/threads/directional-ethernet-cab...

Only £629 for 1.5m cable.

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And remember to straighten them periodically, bends can be very bad for data flow ...

Only for the record the historical coat hangers test: https://web.archive.org/web/20081104211239/https://consumeri...

and a 2019 re-make:

https://www.soundguys.com/cable-myths-reviving-the-coathange...

Bits tend to get squashed moving through bends right? Centrifugal force and all that

Not all bits, the 0's, due to friction on the sides, might be slower, while the 1's are slimmer, but since they have edges they might get stuck in the bends (but on the other hand they are good at cleaning the pipes).

Some pseudo-reference, JFYI:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/154863-the-meta-sata-pataphysic...

I worry sometimes that AWS sometimes runs out of 1s and begins quietly replacing them with lowercase Ls. I can tell the difference, but not everyone can.

That experiment made me immediately think of this ADSL over wet string test: https://hackaday.com/2017/12/14/adsl-robustness-verified-by-...

I wonder if ADSL over wet string helps the guitar sounds really reverberate in my spotify streams.

What, transmitting bits through metal wire? What self-respecting audiophile has not replaced all their cabling with optical fiber?

Glass fiber, are you kidding? These are sapphire fiber. The bits flow more fluidly.

An Australian electronics magazine did an April fools article about using mercury in garden hose for better speaker sound quality, they had a follow up article the next issue to clarify it was satire and dangerous as a few audiophile idiots actually attempted it.

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