On coaxial cable crimps

[Mental]

Problem: No crimped end to add to a recently installed coaxial cable inside my wall for internet services in my new apartment, theoretically making connection with the wall fixture impossible.

Solution: Just fuxing plugged bare coaxial cable right into the wall socket, making sure outer ring touched.

Internet turned on with a lack of frustration more magical than any new Internet hookup I've had in my life. O_O

There is now a "crimp" on there made out of improvised electrical tape. I'll see if I get outages of any kind, but right now this is really is Internet in the raw. I can't believe I'm sending you peeps a message through an uncrimped cable end plugged right into the wall fixture.

I <3 me.

[Mental]

Next time I'm skipping the computer and plunging that thing directly into my cerebellum. That was WAY too easy.

[Zeus]

Why not just buy a crimp? They're less expensive than the electrical tape and far more effective

[Imakeholesinu]

Why not just buy a crimp? They're less expensive than the electrical tape and far more effective

Ends - $1.00
Pressure Crimper - $28.00

Electrical tape - $1.50

Using cable - Deal with the devil.

[Zeus]

You can just use a pair of pliers to put the ends on....

[Mental]

My car is teh busted right now.

Yes, eventually the end will be crimped.

For right now, I still get a small frisson at the thought that I have more or less taught my cable wire and wall socket to have unprotected sex with each other and gotten on the Internet as a result because of it.

As my friend on Facebook said when I told him about it, "giggity".

[Mental]

Sorry Barret...I have still noticed that out of all the major U.S. techs right now, once you can actually get a hot wire out of Time Warner and Comcast (I heard them described as "Compost" on Facebook recently, have to admit I laughed at that), it's still more stable and reliable than anything else around here. ADSL might be good if you get a really good provider, but in general the DSL stuff around here seems to be a bit "chunkier" on upload and download, less streamlined...dunno.

I prefer coax. It's an easy hookup, I happen to own a really good cable modem of my own...and you couldn't do this with phone wire and DSL connectors, which would be nearly impossible to get contact points to touch on without a proper crimp. I really actually prefer the physical transmission technology quite a bit. I think round wire technologies may have some significant physical advantages over non-round-wire techs like phone line. And besides which I still kind of feel like phone line was never meant to carry a heavy data signal anyway, and that DSL is somewhat of a hack. A GOOD hack, but still a hack.

If you just mean that I happen to be giving money to awful people for this privilege, I'll plead guilty for that. You should have seen the angry letter I sent them on Facebook when later in the day they noticed my MAC address was different than the shitty cable modem they sent me that they wanted me to use, so they blocked my access and showed me a picture of the Warner Road Runner for every page I tried to bring up. I believe I accused them of putting him in manacles when the shift was up, off-screen, and issued them a strong injunction not to give him the mange. I might bring it up and post it to this thread in an attempt to amuse. It was...epic. And I doubt I'm the only one who despises the management of Time Warner at this point. Comcast in L.A. was actually GOOD before that massive hodgepodge of corruptly allied corporate states ate them like an amoeba.

I fiend for fast cable Internet access like a crack addict. I swear when I saw the Internet back up it was like somebody turned on a morphine drip in my brain.