SUPERHUB TO THE MAX!

I'm currently an out of work IT guy who is in school working toward my CCNA certification. This semester has taught me a lot about how things have changed in the short time since I was in school for my Bachelor's degree. I ripped on people quite a bit; but the people at the college I'm at take ripping on people to a whole other level. And I got sucked-in. I'm going to let Murderface explain this level of "ripping on people"

I have the tendency to put my foot in my mouth quite a bit. But I’m not nearly as agile from inserting my foot as this one guy from my CCNA class. His name is unknown to me. The running joke all semester has been to call him “The Egg Man”. That’s only because he reminds me of this guy. Mean? Perhaps.

He created the running joke of the semester just by opening his mouth sometime in the first few weeks. He was trying to impress us all with his “vast knowledge” of networking. He was telling us about this spiffy new router that he got that was just the bees’ knees. I was following him up to a certain point. The router he mentioned didn’t come with a built-in switch so he was left to fend for himself to get one.

OK, so far it’s sounding alright. Most of the high-end routers are just routers with switch sold separately. But what he said next totally stunned all who heard it. It was one of those moments where everyone was just shocked, awed and all shared the same thought… “WTF?! HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT!”

The next thing that came out of his mouth was explaining to us how he took a bunch of 10 Base-T hubs (run at 10Mbps) and daisy-chained them together to get gigabit Ethernet (1000Mbps).

I know what you’re thinking… “WTF?! HE DID NOT JUST SAY THAT! STFU nUb!” Oh yeah he did.

This social faux pas was immediately put an end to by everyone involved calling bullshit. He lost all credibility the rest of the semester as an “authority” of everything but breathing. His insane yarn of bullshit was called “The SuperHub” the rest of the semester. We gave it mythical status and powers after a while like some people do with Chuck Norris.

The SuperHub was able to:

• Send 120V AC through the air to power a PLC
• Satisfy all of the networking needs of the school
• Replace Jay Taylor’s impressive lab equipment
• Powered by freaking elves and nothing else!
• Performs parallel tasks more efficiently than my Beowulf Cluster
• Get my f’ing cable TV working!
• Make coffee in the morning without being told.

Today while bored and alone in the CCNA lab, I built a SuperHub. Unfortunately, I lacked the fairy dust and the lack of common sense involved to make the damn thing work with Gigabit Ethernet. (DAMN!)

PICTURES!

My SuperHub rack-mounted with all that nice Cisco stuffs.

Whiteboard example of what the SuperHub should do… in the mind of one sick cat who can’t tell the difference.