Hello, all. I’ve been offline for two days, waiting for the university to finish upgrading the network switches and cabling in our apartment building. Now, the Internet almost flies, and that annoying New Comments lag is gone!

W00t!

The old cabling was a disgrace. The wiring in my apartment looked like it had cobbled together from four-conductor telephone cable, spliced into a DSL adapter, which was spliced into a CAT5 connector. Now everything is CAT6, and the switches, etc., are housed in a proper case with built-in fans and surge suppressors.

Me happy.