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Quiet zoom, no network
After dinner last night, I decided I was going to try to go to Micro Center and look at network stuff. So I went to an Athena cluster and looked for nearby Zipcars; the nearest practical things were in Central Square, but one of the cars parked there is an all-electric Toyota Rav4-EV. This intrigued me enough to go through the online orientation (important: unplug the car before starting, and plug it in again when you get back) and reserve it for a couple of hours.
The car was...different, not bad, but different. I think it had a high intertia factor; it felt a little sluggish getting going, and the brakes felt kind of "sticky", but beyond that it was fairly responsive. The documentation said the car had a range of 50-70 miles, not great but good enough for routine Zipcarring. I didn't actually try taking it on Storrow or 93, but it did fine with the doomful merging around the BU Bridge.
Micro Center wasn't actually as productive as I had hoped; I realized I needed a little more planning before I could actually buy Ethernet parts. (I don't know how many network drops people want, or where.) There were 12-port patch panels for $50 which looked tempting to me. Otherwise, I can put two drops somewhere for $10 plus the cost of cable. Or we can just get really long cable. I need to measure the apartment, and guesstimate how much cable I actually have left on the spool I have. Also strangely tempting, though in a better way, was a boxed Belkin kit that came with a few patch cables, four boxes, four jacks, and 250' of bulk cable; it might actually be what we want.
The car was...different, not bad, but different. I think it had a high intertia factor; it felt a little sluggish getting going, and the brakes felt kind of "sticky", but beyond that it was fairly responsive. The documentation said the car had a range of 50-70 miles, not great but good enough for routine Zipcarring. I didn't actually try taking it on Storrow or 93, but it did fine with the doomful merging around the BU Bridge.
Micro Center wasn't actually as productive as I had hoped; I realized I needed a little more planning before I could actually buy Ethernet parts. (I don't know how many network drops people want, or where.) There were 12-port patch panels for $50 which looked tempting to me. Otherwise, I can put two drops somewhere for $10 plus the cost of cable. Or we can just get really long cable. I need to measure the apartment, and guesstimate how much cable I actually have left on the spool I have. Also strangely tempting, though in a better way, was a boxed Belkin kit that came with a few patch cables, four boxes, four jacks, and 250' of bulk cable; it might actually be what we want.
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