Networking

Once upon a time, those of us trying to connect devices spent an inordinate amount of time messing with networking. We drilled holes in walls, pulled cables through ceilings and crawl spaces, carefully read the specs on network interface cards, and installed drivers.

There are many reasons I’m grateful to live in the current technological reality, and not having to mess much with networking is one of them. One flavor of Ethernet networking won for wired high-speed local area networks (LANs), and it has continued to mature over several decades.

As I first ...

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