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You're absolutely right, I stand corrected. But the author's complaint is still legitimate: in the context of billions of consumer devices, the diversity of be
by vannevar 6y ago
You're absolutely right, I stand corrected.
But the author's complaint is still legitimate: in the context of billions of consumer devices, the diversity of behaviors is a problem. With RJ45, as long as the cable wasn't defective, it generally wouldn't fail completely. And relatively few consumers ever wired their own networks, whereas virtually everyone has to deal with USB-C-equipped devices.
- tw04 6y ago>With RJ45, as long as the cable wasn't defective, it generally wouldn't fail completely. That's just not true, and I don't mean this to be demeaning but you clearly haven't had to install new hardware into an old datacenter. I can't tell you how many times I've run into situations where a 1Gbe port would auto-negotiate to 10Mbps half-duplex. Did it technically not fail? I guess... but the line was so lossy you couldn't get a ping to complete much less an actual session of any sort.
- vannevar 6y agoI can tell you that, as a consumer who has wired a lot of small office and home Ethernet, I've never seen a failure like that. On the other hand, I've seen lots of unexpected behavior with USB. I don't doubt your sincerity, but the reality is that very few consumers have to rebuild data centers. Lots of them need to power personal devices with shared USB cables and power supplies.