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In This Issue: Prepping Tips | Cisco 3825 Router Fan 1 / Fan 2 Replacement | Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Prepping Tips
Happy Monday!
We’ve been getting some pretty gnarly storms here in the northeast Georgia area and they reminded me to do my annual hurricane prep checkup. You read that right! Hurricane preparedness for someone who lives about 250 miles away from the nearest coastline. Well, I used to not worry so much about hurricanes until hurricane Irma decided to give Georgia a visit in September of 2017. This resulted in 1.5 million households without power and for my family, it resulted in an awful 4 days without power or water. Luckily we had enough food and water to last us, but it wasn’t very comfortable.
One huge lesson I learned from the whole experience is that you never have enough water. This is not only for drinking, but flushing toilets, showering, washing dishes, cleaning, and hand washing. Most official preparedness sites recommend a gallon per person per day, but I would treat that as a minimum and recommend doubling that if you can, and although it’s a bit extreme, I would recommend at least 5 days’ worth of supplies instead of the recommended 3 days. If you are new to disaster prepping and need a list, www.ready.gov/kit has a pretty good basic list of supplies if you want to start getting prepared. Tailor this list to your needs and situation. This kit can not only help you with a hurricane, but floods, storms, fires, and other disasters and emergencies.
Now is the best time to start and I recommend everyone have a kit and a plan. If you live in the southeast/mid-Atlantic area where hurricanes like to visit, the NOAA is predicting an above-average hurricane activity this year, so now when it’s quiet is the best time to take some action. Do you have any prepping tips that are a must? Would love to hear your strategies and thoughts!
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
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Learning Center Article – Cat7 Ethernet: Beginning & End
Ethernet has been a staple in networking for decades. When copper cables can provide enough throughput, they tend to be much cheaper and easier to use than other connection types. Ethernet is the king of simplicity, and that’s a major part of why it is so popular.
Over the many years of Ethernet’s use, it has seen incremental improvements and upgrades. As internet access expanded in the 90s and 2000s, many home networks started off with Cat5 cabling. For faster networks, Cat6 was frequently chosen. Today, you will see that even in data centers Cat8 is a good choice. But, you won’t often see Cat7 cables anywhere. Why is that?
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- A fire in California’s Sierra Nevada continued to expand Sunday, with sprinklers deployed to protect the cherished giant sequoia trees of Mariposa Grove. The blaze in Yosemite National Park was measured at 2,044 acres by evening. It had no containment, and it was likely to continue to grow amid light winds and hot conditions.
- Marvel’s “Thor: Love and Thunder” scored big at the box office during its opening weekend, earning $143 million in North America, a franchise-best for the Thor film series.
- The second of two consecutive “supermoons” will be glowing brightly in the night sky this week, as the full “buck moon” of July 2022 rises and gives sky watchers a special summer treat. Learn more here.
- Elon Musk wants to end his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, according to a letter sent by a lawyer on his behalf to the company’s chief legal officer Friday. But Twitter’s board chair Bret Taylor said the company is still committed to closing the deal at the agreed-upon price and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the agreement.