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On the other hand, understanding coax termination is much easier than figuring out what 5G or Wifi6 is doing with radio waves.


Sure? But I think the point stands. And why would anyone think that a terminator would go bad until you’ve tried everything else and finally you swap them out and all of a sudden the network chatter stops and things go back to normal? It’s an experience thing and I worry that most of us are too abstracted from the underlying systems these days to properly understand them. It’s pretty common in my other world (info sec policy).


Just saying that the abstraction tower has grown a lot higher since your days and the most common tech in use today is surprisingly complicated.




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