Cat 5 wedding rings help nerds couple
By Thomas Ricker 
posted April 22nd 2008 3:51AM
posted April 22nd 2008 3:51AM
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$175 Dollars for something that will undoubtedly lower your chances of getting laid. hmmm
TBF I think most wedding rings would lower your chances of getting laid
(With someone other than your wife obv.)
@cmc I think George Costanza would disagree with you.
cmc
you are SO clearly NOT married guy.
I bet at least one of them looks like the Simpson's Fat Comic Book guy.
When that thing you push down to take out the ethernet cable breaks, it's time for divorce.
Well, if these were sold at Best Buy, they'd force you into buying Cat 6 and charge you twice as much for it.
@ dervheid
He's not your guy, buddy!
My girlfriend would actually probably get a kick out of this if I proposed to her with this. She has a lot of brothers and grew up around video games and computers and LAN parties. You just have to find the right woman I guess.
He's not your buddy, friend!
His not your friend, GUY!!!
(Lol, sorry I had to.. I loved that first comment, and just wanted to show my appreciation) :)
"Mermaidman and Barnacleboy... UNITE!"
He's not your guy, gaylord.
The problem is, after 100m you have to have a renewal of vows ceremony.
Oops, is my geek hanging out?
You do know that if your wearing one of those it means your married right? So getting laid wouldn't be an issue unless your trying to cheat... in which case any ring on your left ring figure would halt most women.
Priest: Now please place your Cat5e into that socket.
LOL. I bet the priest doesn't even know what it's called.
Priest: Now please... umm... plug that thing into that thing. Whatever it's called.
Couple: It's a Category 5 RJ45 socket and jack.
Priest: Yeah... whatever. Just hurry up and do it!
BTW the metal doesn't look polished. Bah! For $175 it should have been at least polished metal with some Swavorski crystals at least.
Well, if you want to be *reaaaaally* technicanal, it's an 8p8c connector. RJ45 is a misnomer that has become a valid term on through its constant misuse. Very few people know what "8p8c" is or means anyway.
Calling it a 8p8c will lower your chances of getting laid even more!!
Haha!
This completely changes the meaning of a TOKEN RING NETWORK.
It would suck if the plastic clip broke. I wonder what that would symbolize....
Erectile dysfunction? Impotency?
Freedom!
Vasectomy
Two for three, good enough.
I hope the two were using a firewall to prevent unwanted packet transmission
Sorry, I'm already using wireless-N. Or at least that should be gigabit ethernet, then I may think about it...
Hate to break it to you, but GigE on copper uses the same RJ-45 connectors as E and FastE.
It's a Cat5 wedding ring. Gigabit Ethernet needs Cat6 spec cable..
gigabit ethernet works fine enough on cat5e
Uhhhm no it doesn't it uses the same cable as a the rest.
wait a minute, just read the listing and its 175 for EACH ring like the idea but the pricing is just dumb.
Actually, gigE works on standard cat5... which is what I have at home. tested up to 540Mbit actual throughput...
Should be called the Pussy Repellent Rings or 'the guarantee she'll say no ring'.
Pretty nerdy, but I still prefer my binary wedding ring: http://www.jakobhoman.com/2007/09/she-married-geek-my-binary-wedding-ring.html Geeky, but not so much that you can't go out in public.
That's AWESOME. My wedding band is titanium as well but no binary inscription... :-)
You're right about titanium scratching easily...My ring used to be two-tone (one half brushed, one half smooth) but now it is all pretty much smooth.
*Honeymoon night, in the hotel room....*
"Honey, lets do it.. lets do it right now, here on the bed... lets....
.... interface."
hahhaha awsome
when will we get wifi rings??
"oh yea! right in the hotspot"
No! no! I'm losing signal... noooooooo
"we'll reboot and try again tomorrow night honey... i"M tired, and have a headache"
If your spouse asks for USB instead of CAT5, one of you needs your ego checked.
...and then there's firewire, but let's not go there.
..Yes. I read protocol specifications for fun.
By the way, this reminds me-- here, an excerpt from page 19 of the USB 2.0 specification.
The transaction schedule allows flow control for some stream pipes. At the hardware level, this prevents buffers from underrun or overrun situations by using a NAK handshake to throttle the data rate. When NAKed, a transaction is retried when bus time is available. The flow control mechanism permits the
construction of flexible schedules that accommodate concurrent servicing of a heterogeneous mix of stream pipes. Thus, multiple stream pipes can be serviced at different intervals and with packets of different sizes.
I'm often known as a geek, but my head just exploded reading that..
HAHA... you said 'stream pipe'
Wonder Nerd powers ACTIVATE!
Form Of....40 year old virgin!
This comments section is bursting with win.
If only there was a way for everyone to be high ranked!
even if the guy who made that sells one set he made a decent profit. Those rings cost what $10 max to make.
Can you imagine how many things you'd catch those rings on. Seriously, it's a bit late for an April fools joke.