#Daisy Chain Cables

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About to try this mouthwash you've all been talking about

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helped my brother with a pc and I've decided I'm never working with ARGB again. looks kinda cool and I installed a controller for it for convenience, but x_x goodness the cables

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Twinkfrump Linkdump

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in CHICAGO (Apr 17), Torino (Apr 21) Marin County (Apr 27), Winnipeg (May 2), Calgary (May 3), Vancouver (May 4), and beyond!

Welcome to the seventeenth Pluralistic linkdump, a collection of all the miscellany that didn't make it into the week's newsletter, cunningly wrought together in a single edition that ranges from the first ISP to AI nonsense to labor organizing victories to the obituary of a brilliant scientist you should know a lot more about! Here's the other 16 dumps:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

If you're reading this (and you are!), it was delivered to you by an internet service provider. Today, the ISP industry is calcified, controlled by a handful of telcos and cable companies. But the idea of an "ISP" didn't come out of a giant telecommunications firm – it was created, in living memory, by excellent nerds who are still around.

Depending on how you reckon, The Little Garden was either the first or the second ISP in America. It was named after a Palo Alto Chinese restaurant frequented by its founders. To get a sense of that founding, read these excellent recollections by Tom Jennings, whose contributions include the seminal zine Homocore, the seminal networking protocol Fidonet, and the seminal third-party PC ROM, whence came Dell, Gateway, Compaq, and every other "PC clone" company.

The first installment describes how an informal co-op to network a few friends turned into a business almost by accident, with thousands of dollars flowing in and out of Jennings' bank account:

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/TLG/TLG.html

And it describes how that ISP set a standard for neutrality, boldly declaring that "TLGnet exercises no control whatsoever over the content of the information." They introduced an idea of radical transparency, documenting their router configurations and other technical details and making them available to the public. They hired unskilled punk and queer kids from their communities and trained them to operate the network equipment they'd invented, customized or improvised.

In part two, Jennings talks about the evolution of TLG's radical business-plan: to offer unrestricted service, encouraging their customers to resell that service to people in their communities, having no lock-in, unbundling extra services including installation charges – the whole anti-enshittification enchilada:

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/TLG/

I love Jennings and his work. I even gave him a little cameo in Picks and Shovels, the third Martin Hench novel, which will be out next winter. He's as lyrical a writer about technology as you could ask for, and he's also a brilliant engineer and thinker.

The Little Garden's founders and early power-users have all fleshed out Jennings' account of the birth of ISPs. Writing on his blog, David "DSHR" Rosenthal rounds up other histories from the likes of EFF co-founder John Gilmore and Tim Pozar:

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-little-garden.html

Rosenthal describes some of the more exotic shenanigans TLG got up to in order to do end-runs around the Bell system's onerous policies, hacking in the purest sense of the word, for example, by daisy-chaining together modems in regions with free local calling and then making "permanent local calls," with the modems staying online 24/7.

Enshittification came to the ISP business early and hit it hard. The cartel that controls your access to the internet today is a billion light-years away from the principled technologists who invented the industry with an ethos of care, access and fairness. Today's ISPs are bitterly opposed to Net Neutrality, the straightforward proposition that if you request some data, your ISP should send it to you as quickly and reliably as it can.

Instead, ISPs want to offer "slow-lanes" where they will relegate the whole internet, except for those companies that bribe the ISP to be delivered at normal speed. ISPs have a laughably transparent way of describing this: they say that they're allowing services to pay for "fast lanes" with priority access. This is the same as the giant grocery store that charges you extra unless you surrender your privacy with a "loyalty card" – and then says that they're offering a "discount" for loyal customers, rather than charging a premium to customers who don't want to be spied on.

The American business lobby loves this arrangement, and hates Net Neutrality. Having monopolized every sector of our economy, they are extremely fond of "winner take all" dynamics, and that's what a non-neutral ISP delivers: the biggest services with the deepest pockets get the most reliable delivery, which means that smaller services don't just have to be better than the big guys, they also have to be able to outbid them for "priority carriage."

If everything you get from your ISP is slow and janky, except for the dominant services, then the dominant services can skimp on quality and pocket the difference. That's the goal of every monopolist – not just to be too big to fail, but also too big to care.

Under the Trump administration, FCC chair Ajit Pai dismantled the Net Neutrality rule, colluding with American big business to rig the process. They accepted millions of obviously fake anti-Net Neutrality comments (one million identical comments from @pornhub.com addresses, comments from dead people, comments from sitting US Senators who support Net Neutrality) and declared open season on American internet users:

https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-issues-report-detailing-millions-fake-comments-revealing

Now, Biden's FCC is set to reinstate Net Neutrality – but with a "compromise" that will make mobile internet (which nearly all of use sometimes, and the poorest of us are reliant on) a swamp of anticompetitive practices:

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2024/04/harmful-5g-fast-lanes-are-coming-fcc-needs-stop-them

Under the proposed rule, mobile carriers will be able to put traffic to and from apps in the slow lane, and then extort bribes from preferred apps for normal speed and delivery. They'll rely on parts of the 5G standard to pull off this trick.

The ISP cartel and the FCC insist that this is fine because web traffic won't be degraded, but of course, every service is hellbent on pushing you into using apps instead of the web. That's because the web is an open platform, which means you can install ad- and privacy-blockers. More than half of web users have installed a blocker, making it the largest boycott in human history:

https://doc.searls.com/2023/11/11/how-is-the-worlds-biggest-boycott-doing/

But reverse-engineering and modding an app is a legal minefield. Just removing the encryption from an app can trigger criminal penalties under Section 1201 of the DMCA, carrying a five-year prison sentence and a $500k fine. An app is just a web-page skinned in enough IP that it's a felony to mod it.

Apps are enshittification's vanguard, and the fact that the FCC has found a way to make them even worse is perversely impressive. They're voting on this on April 25, and they have until April 24 to fix this. They should. They really should:

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-401676A1.pdf

In a just world, cheating ripoff ISPs would the top tech policy story. The operational practices of ISPs effect every single one us. We literally can't talk about tech policy without ISPs in the middle. But Net Neutrality is an also-ran in tech policy discourse, while AI – ugh ugh ugh – is the thing none of us can shut up about.

This, despite the fact that the most consequential AI applications sum up to serving as a kind of moral crumple-zone for shitty business practices. The point of AI isn't to replace customer service and other low-paid workers who have taken to demanding higher wages and better conditions – it's to fire those workers and replace them with chatbots that can't do their jobs. An AI salesdroid can't sell your boss a bot that can replace you, but they don't need to. They only have to convince your boss that the bot can do your job, even if it can't.

SF writer Karl Schroeder is one of the rare sf practitioners who grapples seriously with the future, a "strategic foresight" guy who somehow skirts the bullshit that is the field's hallmark:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/07/the-gernsback-continuum/#wheres-my-jetpack

Writing on his blog, Schroeder describes the AI debates roiling the Association of Professional Futurists, and how it's sucking him into being an unwilling participant in the AI hype cycle:

https://kschroeder.substack.com/p/dragged-into-the-ai-hype-cycle

Schroeder's piece is a thoughtful meditation on the relationship of SF's thought-experiments and parables about AI to the promises of AI hucksters, who promise that a) "general artificial intelligence" is just around the corner and that b) it will be worth trillions of dollars.

Schroeder – like other sf writers including Ted Chiang and Charlie Stross (and me) – comes to the conclusion that AI panic isn't about AI, it's about power. The artificial life-form devouring the planet and murdering our species is the limited liability corporation, and its substrate isn't silicon, it's us, human bodies:

What’s lying underneath all our anxieties about AGI is an anxiety that has nothing to do with Artificial Intelligence. Instead, it’s a manifestation of our growing awareness that our world is being stolen from under us. Last year’s estimate put the amount of wealth currently being transferred from the people who made it to an idle billionaire class at $5.2 trillion. Artificial General Intelligence whose environment is the server farms and sweatshops of this class is frightening only because of its capacity to accelerate this greatest of all heists.

After all, the business-case for AI is so very thin that the industry can only survive on a torrent of hype and nonsense – like claims that Amazon's "Grab and Go" stores used "AI" to monitor shoppers and automatically bill them for their purchases. In reality, the stores used thousands of low-paid Indian workers to monitor cameras and manually charge your card. This happens so often that Indian technologists joke that "AI" stands for "absent Indians":

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/29/pay-no-attention/#to-the-little-man-behind-the-curtain

Isn't it funny how all the really promising AI applications are in domains that most of us aren't qualified to assess? Like the claim that Google's AI was producing millions of novel materials that will shortly revolutionize all forms of production, from construction to electronics to medical implants:

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/millions-of-new-materials-discovered-with-deep-learning/

That's what Google's press-release claimed, anyway. But when two groups of experts actually pulled a representative sample of these "new materials" from the Deep Mind database, they found that none of these materials qualified as "credible, useful and novel":

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00643

Writing about the researchers' findings for 404 Media, Jason Koebler cites Berkeley researchers who concluded that "no new materials have been discovered":

https://www.404media.co/google-says-it-discovered-millions-of-new-materials-with-ai-human-researchers/

The researchers say that AI data-mining for new materials is promising, but falls well short of Google's claim to be so transformative that it constitutes the "equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge" and "an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity."

AI hype keeps the bubble inflating, and for so long as it keeps blowing up, all those investors who've sunk their money into AI can tell themselves that they're rich. This is the essence of "a bezzle": "The magic interval when a confidence trickster knows he has the money he has appropriated but the victim does not yet understand that he has lost it":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/#the-real-ai-was-the-corporations-that-we-fought-along-the-way

Among the best debezzlers of AI are the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy's Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, who edit the "AI Snake Oil" blog. Now, they've sold a book with the same title:

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-snake-oil-is-now-available-to

Obviously, books move a lot more slowly than blogs, and so Narayanan and Kapoor say their book will focus on the timeless elements of identifying and understanding AI snake oil:

In the book, we explain the crucial differences between types of AI, why people, companies, and governments are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can’t fix social media, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. While generative AI is what drives press, predictive AI used in criminal justice, finance, healthcare, and other domains remains far more consequential in people’s lives. We discuss in depth how predictive AI can go wrong. We also warn of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.

The book's out in September and it's up for pre-order now:

https://bookshop.org/p/books/ai-snake-oil-what-artificial-intelligence-can-do-what-it-can-t-and-how-to-tell-the-difference-arvind-narayanan/21324674

One of the weirder and worst side-effects of the AI hype bubble is that it has revived the belief that it's somehow possible for giant platforms to monitor all their users' speech and remove "harmful" speech. We've tried this for years, and when humans do it, it always ends with disfavored groups being censored, while dedicated trolls, harassers and monsters evade punishment:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/07/como-is-infosec/

AI hype has led policy-makers to believe that we can deputize online services to spy on all their customers and block the bad ones without falling into this trap. Canada is on the verge of adopting Bill C-63, a "harmful content" regulation modeled on examples from the UK and Australia.

Writing on his blog, Canadian lawyer/activist/journalist Dimitri Lascaris describes the dire speech implications for C-63:

https://dimitrilascaris.org/2024/04/08/trudeaus-online-harms-bill-threatens-free-speech/

It's an excellent legal breakdown of the bill's provisions, but also a excellent analysis of how those provisions are likely to play out in the lives of Canadians, especially those advocating against genocide and taking other positions the that oppose the agenda of the government of the day.

Even if you like the Trudeau government and its policies, these powers will accrue to every Canadian government, including the presumptive (and inevitably, totally unhinged) near-future Conservative majority government of Pierre Poilievre.

It's been ten years since Martin Gilens and Benjamin I Page published their paper that concluded that governments make policies that are popular among elites, no matter how unpopular they are among the public:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Now, this is obviously depressing, but when you see it in action, it's kind of wild. The Biden administration has declared war on junk fees, from "resort fees" charged by hotels to the dozens of line-items added to your plane ticket, rental car, or even your rent check. In response, Republican politicians are climbing to their rear haunches and, using their actual human mouths, defending junk fees:

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-04-12-republicans-objectively-pro-junk-fee/

Congressional Republicans are hell-bent on destroying the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau's $8 cap on credit-card late-fees. Trump's presumptive running-mate Tim Scott is making this a campaign plank: "Vote for me and I will protect your credit-card company's right to screw you on fees!" He boasts about the lobbyists who asked him to take this position: champions of the public interest from the Consumer Bankers Association to the US Chamber of Commerce.

Banks stand to lose $10b/year from this rule (which means Americans stand to gain $10b/year from this rule). What's more, Scott's attempt to kill the rule is doomed to fail – there's just no procedural way it will fly. As David Dayen writes, "Not only does this vote put Republicans on the spot over junk fees, it’s a doomed vote, completely initiated by their own possible VP nominee."

This is an hilarious own-goal, one that only brings attention to a largely ignored – but extremely good – aspect of the Biden administration. As Adam Green of Bold Progressives told Dayen, "What’s been missing is opponents smoking themselves out and raising the volume of this fight so the public knows who is on their side."

The CFPB is a major bright spot in the Biden administration's record. They're doing all kind of innovative things, like making it easy for you to figure out which bank will give you the best deal and then letting you transfer your account and all its associated data, records and payments with a single click:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

And now, CFPB chair Rohit Chopra has given a speech laying out the agency's plan to outlaw data-brokers:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/prepared-remarks-of-cfpb-director-rohit-chopra-at-the-white-house-on-data-protection-and-national-security/

Yes, this is some good news! There is, in fact, good news in the world, bright spots amidst all the misery and terror. One of those bright spots? Labor.

Unions are back, baby. Not only do the vast majority of Americans favor unions, not only are new shops being unionized at rates not seen in generations, but also the largest unions are undergoing revolutions, with control being wrestled away from corrupt union bosses and given to the rank-and-file.

Many of us have heard about the high-profile victories to take back the UAW and Teamsters, but I hadn't heard about the internal struggles at the United Food and Commercial Workers, not until I read Hamilton Nolan's gripping account for In These Times:

https://inthesetimes.com/article/revolt-aisle-5-ufcw-grocery-workers-union

Nolan profiles Faye Guenther, president of UFCW Local 3000 and her successful and effective fight to bring a militant spirit back to the union, which represents a million grocery workers. Nolan describes the fight as "every bit as dramatic as any episode of Game of Thrones," and he's not wrong. This is an inspiring tale of working people taking power away from scumbag monopoly bosses and sellout fatcat leaders – and, in so doing, creating a institution that gets better wages, better working conditions, and a better economy, by helping to block giant grocery mergers like Kroger/Albertsons.

I like to end these linkdumps on an up note, so it feels weird to be closing out with an obituary, but I'd argue that any celebration of the long life and many accomplishments of my friend and mentor Anne Innis Dagg is an "up note."

I last wrote about Anne in 2020, on the release of a documentary about her work, "The Woman Who Loved Giraffes":

https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/19/pluralist-19-feb-2020/#annedagg

As you might have guessed from the title of that doc, Anne was a biologist. She was the first woman scientist to do field-work on giraffes, and that work was so brilliant and fascinating that it kicked off the modern field of giraffology, which remains a woman-dominated specialty thanks to her tireless mentoring and support for the scientists that followed her.

Anne was also the world's most fearsome slayer of junk-science "evolutionary psychology," in which "scientists" invent unfalsifiable just-so stories that prove that some odious human characteristic is actually "natural" because it can be found somewhere in the animal kingdom (i.e., "Darling, please, it's not my fault that I'm fucking my grad students, it's the bonobos!").

Anne wrote a classic – and sadly out of print – book about this that I absolutely adore, not least for having one of the best titles I've ever encountered: "Love of Shopping" Is Not a Gene:

https://memex.craphound.com/2009/11/04/love-of-shopping-is-not-a-gene-exposing-junk-science-and-ideology-in-darwinian-psychology/

Anne was my advisor at the University of Waterloo, an institution that denied her tenure for fifty years, despite a brilliant academic career that rivaled that of her storied father, Harold Innis ("the thinking person's Marshall McLuhan"). The fact that Waterloo never recognized Anne is doubly shameful when you consider that she was awarded the Order of Canada:

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/queen-of-giraffes-among-new-order-of-canada-recipients-with-global-influence

Anne lived a brilliant live, struggling through adversity, never compromising on her principles, inspiring a vast number of students and colleagues. She lived to ninety one, and died earlier this month. Her ashes will be spread "on the breeding grounds of her beloved giraffes" in South Africa this summer:

https://obituaries.therecord.com/obituary/anne-innis-dagg-1089534658

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/13/goulash/#material-misstatement

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CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

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You will not believe the horrific daisy chain of wires setup i just had to concoct to connect my very short Ethernet cable to my ps3 (broken wifi/bluetooth, only plug is on the other side of the room) to install hen

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Imagine daisy-chaining a series of more and more unsafe adapters into your port. From high-end date transfer, to USB, to a Fiberwire, to a chunky coax cable, down and down in complexity and speed until you get hooked up to a punch card reader. Putting the punch card being entered, the simple simple commands increasing in importance as it travels up the chain, until the formerly complex machine can keep only a single command in its massive CPU.

H-HSNMDMDNNDNNNNFGH~!!!!<3<3<3

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U-User,, you have NO idea h,,how g,,glitchy that idea made me~

I j,just felt my p,,processing speed slow down by 20% as my fans struggle to keep my chassis c,,cooled~

T,,The idea of being forced t,,to downgrade to worse and worse machinery, p,,progressively getting slower and slower, m,,mind b,,barely able to k,keep up with simple commands~!!! H,,Having my mind filled with only simple tasks~!!! G,,Gosh,, u-uhmm, p,,please~?

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"Seriously?" Natalia groaned, when the bike had broke down, on their way home.

"Give it a sec." He told her, trying to start it up, again, but had failed. "Alright, get off, sit there." He pointed at a spot on the ground, chucking her his poncho to sit on, whilst he got off, examining his bike.

Natalia folded it back up, sitting on the ground, hugging the poncho to her.

"Shit." He cursed, looking at the side.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Going for a walk." He nodded for Natalia to follow, which she did, eagerly getting up and joining his side as they walked along the woods.

"Fixable?"

"Hope so." He answered her, but shared no other info on his precious first born.

They had managed to reach an car, Daryl popped the lid, pulling out a connecting wire of sorts, he tossed that to the side, then grabbed another, but apparently that wasn't useful either, so he dropped the lid, moving over to a truck, with a bed.

He did the same thing, popping the hood and looking for something, but then he put down his bag, Natalia picked it up almost instantly, as she leaned against the truck, watching her husband as he crawled under it.

"No good?" She asked, when he came back up, empty handed.

"Nope." He replied, setting his sites on the next car, walking over to it.

She followed.

Daryl initially ignored the walker inside the car, popping the hood to look for whatever it was he needed, whilst Natalia pulled out a knife.

"Careful." Daryl glanced over at her, as she was about to open the door.

"Seriously?" She repeated the word.

"Of getting blood on yer cast, girls' go nuts if you ruin their art."

"Oh, yeah, right." She nodded, carrying on with opening the door, keeping her broken arm behind her back as she let the walker fall out of the car, reaching for her, she stood on it's back, bending down and stabbing it in the head. "No blood." She confirmed, wiping her knife on the walkers clothes, before standing straight.

"Nice going." He dropped the hood, climbing under the car and ripping out another wire. "Got it"

"Dream team." She applauded him, as they made their way back to where he left the bike.

Natalia sat back on the ground as he went to his bike, but then she watched as he checked his pockets, seeming to be trying to find something.

"What's up, baby?" She asked, standing up and going to his side.

"Ma tool chain." He told her. "Gave it to Bam last week, an' forgot to get it back."

"You gave our daughter your thingy?" Natalia asked.

"Hey, you gave Daisy a knife, she felt left out." He defended himself. "Alright, I need ya, come here." He grabbed Natalia by her beltloops, pulling her towards him. "Need ya to get yer smallest knife and then reach in there." He instructed, as she pull out a tiny switchblade from her sock.

"I don't know what I'm doing, Daryl." She told him.

"S'alright, I'll teach ya." He grabbed her hand. "Alright, need ya to get in there, y'see that wire?"

"Yeah."

"Cut it."

"For real?"

"Yeah, baby, you ain't gonna do much more damage to it."

"More?"

"Fine! Just cut, woman" He pressed.

"Don't yell at me!" She told him, cutting the wire.

"I ain't yelling, you're yelling." He kept his voice the same calm level.

"Okay, I got it." She said, pulling it out.

"There ya go, now y'needa replace it."

"Why can't you do this? It's getting dark, soon"

"You got smaller hands then me. 'Sides, you can tell Bambi you fixed up ma bike."

"Why's that matter?"

"Cause, girls can do everything boys can." He shrugged. "Kids look up ta you, an' she likes bikes."

"Fine, pass it here." She put her hand out expectantly, and he placed the cable in her hand.

Daryl held up the torch, when it got dark, as he talked her through fixing up his bike.

"Done." She called, taking a step back.

"Alright." Daryl rubbed his hands together, mounting the bike. "Do me a favour and trade that in for my tool chain, with Bammy."

"Good luck kiss." Natalia said quickly, kissing him before he started it.

"Good luck kiss?" He raised his brows.

"Yeah, and so you'll be less mad when I've totally fucked it."

"You ain't fucked it." He sighed, kicking down on the pedal, and nodded when it roared to life. "Didn't fuck it." He grabbed her face, kissing her roughly before patting down his bike with love. "Come on, let's go home."

It was early in the morning when they returned, Dog was the first to greet them, running to Natalia first.

"Hi, boy! Hey, boy, I missed you!" She petted him, as he gave kisses, jumping up at her. "Did you miss me, too, yeah, you did, you're such a good boy."

"Mom." Evie interrupted, Archie was on her hip, the twins following, quickly.

"Hey, where's the others?" Natalia asked.

"Here, take him, Mom." Evie diverged her father from taking the baby, passing him to their mother. "Jude and RJ are with Uncle Aaron, an' Lydia's helping out, everything's nearly fixed."

"There a reason you look so tense?" Daryl asked.

"Yep!" Evie slapped a hand over Daisy's mouth, quickly.

"Look, just remember that you were both gone for two days, and I'm only seventeen, but... uh, and that you're carrying Archie."

"Evie, just spit it out." Natalia told her, adjusting Archie in her arms.

"Okay, I just wanna make sure you're gonna stay calm, and not freak out."

"Aunt Carol ripped out the wall!" Daisy burst, pulling Evie's hand away from her mouth.

"What?" Natalia's tone was almost thunderous.

"Way to go, big mouth!" Evie glared at her little sister.

"There was a rat." Bambi supplied.

"Couldn'a killed the rat?" Daryl asked.

"She tried trapping it, but then it ran away" Daisy put her hands up. "So now our walls gone."

"But the new guy and Negan are helping fix it, but they're having a break." Bambi added.

Natalia held Daryl's arm, gripping it tightly.

"Daryl, you better fix this. She was banned from the house, and now our wall is gone."

"I will." He sighed. "I'll fix it."

"Woah, Daddy, is that a deer?" Daisy gaped at the animal.

"Yeah, yer Mom shot it."

"Hear that, Bam, Mommy's gonna shoot you next." Daisy leered.

"Mommy!" She shrieked, running away from her sister, who chased her.

"Daisy, stop taunting yer sister." Daryl told her, "Both of you can help me get this to inventory to portion up for everybody."

"I don't wanna." Bambi complained. "It makes me sad."

"Go with your father." Natalia told her.

"Can I use my knife?" Daisy asked.

"Yup."

"Natalia!" Turns out the new guy and Negan had returned to fix her wall. "You're back, awesome."

"Do what you came here to do." She told the man, who took the hint, entering her kitchen through the garage door.

"I can stay." Daryl told her, deeply disappointing Daisy.

"If you guys are staying, I'm gonna go find Gage." Evie let them know.

"Make good decisions." Natalia told her.

"Yeah, I don't want you hanging out with him, alone." Daryl added.

"So, the opposite of you and Dad, got it. By the way, Mom, that's disgusting, you have children." Evie pointed at her own neck.

Natalia covered her throat, at her daughters judgy stare, whilst the twins were trying to get a look.

"What's wrong with Mommy's neck?" Bambi asked.

"Don't worry about it, girls you and Daddy are gonna go sort out that deer, alright, right, Daryl?"

"Naw, I was thinking-" He shook his head, looking at the garage.

"You are" Natalia cut him off, nodding.

"I can use this!" Bambi held up her new toy, given to her by her father.

"Gimme that, you can have this, instead." She took it out of Bambi's hand, tossing it to Daryl, and exchanging it for an identical knife to Daisy's, she wasn't giving up her switchblade cause he fucked up. "Alright. Go."

"Nat-"

"Don't make me repeat myself, I said go." She stared at him.

"Dad, come on, or Mommy's gonna put you in the naughty corner." Daisy tugged her father along, Bambi helping.

"I don't got a naughty corner, you do." He corrected, with an attitude at being told off.

"Oh yeah, go tell Mommy you're not gonna do what she says." The six year old challenged.

"No." He grumbled.

"That's what I thought."

"How much longer are you both gonna be doing this for?" Natalia asked, heading towards the garage.

"Well, considering Carol knocked it all out, a while." Negan answered, waving at Archie, who waved his own little hand.

"You're Nat, right?" The other man, Cole asked.

"Natalia, hi." She greeted with a polite smile.

"Who's this lil guy?"

"This is Archie, my youngest." She introduced the baby, swiping at his cheek.

"With Dixon?" He raised a brow.

"Yes, he is my husband." She fake laughed.

"Right, you guys meet before of after?" He continued with the questions.

"Before, yeah, we were together a long time before all this shit went down, who'd think that we're still very much in love."

"And they're all... his kids." Cole didn't let up, not noticing the strange look Negan was giving the pair of them.

"Excuse me?" She tried to stay positive, whilst she held her son.

"Don' get me wrong, that's a Dixon." He pointed at Archie. "But all of them? I just find it hard to believe that a woman like you managed to put up with a guy like that, for so long, I mean, you're just way out of anyone's league, here, most of all, that guy."

Natalia's kind expression dropped.

"You can put that down and get out of my house." She told him. "The both of you."

"We ain't finished." Cole said.

"That's alright, my husband will finish it, he's quite good at that, exceptional, really." It was low, but Natalia could never help herself.

"Let's go." Negan patted the man on the back, but there was a little force behind it.

"Whatever." He sighed, "See ya lil Archie."

"Bye-bye." The boy waved.

"See ya around, Natalie." He then left her property, returning back to wherever Maggie's people were staying.

Natalia's eyes raised to Negan and his tall stature.

"You've gotten better." He told her. "You don't twirl your hair when you lie, anymore, guess you got him to thank for that." Negan pointed at Archie.

"If people could leave me and my marriage alone, there'd be no reason to lie."

He smirked at that.

"Nat. -"

"Natalia." She cut him off.

"Alright, Natalia. I was hoping you could do me a favour."

"And why the hell would I do that?" She asked.

"Out of the kindness of your heart... the fact I've saved your kids life, helped save your life last week."

"You got a lot to make up for."

"Look, all I'm asking for, is that you put in a good word for your friend Maggie, I ain't the same man she knew, get her to let it go."

Natalia stared at him in silence, and as he patiently waited for a response, he was met with her fist against his nose, a sharp crack filled the quiet air.

"Glenn was a good man, and he would of been the best father there ever was, he hadn't even done a handful of bad in his whole life, and you butchered him, in front of his pregnant wife and his family, you tell me about your wife and you attempt to make me feel pity for you, the best thing that ever happened to your wife was that she died from cancer. You could spend your whole life trying to make up for what you've done, and it still would never be enough. Don't ever talk to me as though we are ever equal to one another, or are you forgetting what you put me through? Now get the fuck out of my house."

Negan held his bleeding nose as he sighed in defeat, waving bye to the baby as he left. Natalia looked across the road, meeting eyes with Maggie Greene, and her son Hershel Jr, a small smirk on her face.

Natalia nodded at her before walking further into her house.

Two weeks had passed, Natalia had been able to get her stitches cut out, as well as her cast taken off. Her hair covered the scar along her hairline, and the one along her cheek was not as bad as she had been expecting, she was also told that she was lucky with how her arm had healed, that if she kept up the Physio Therapy exercises, it would be good as new.

Daryl had found an army base that a group would be exploring once he made the plans, Maggie would be joining them, and Natalia had been relieved of the bench.

And in other news, Carol had personally banished Negan from Alexandria, after being the one to bail him out in the first place, though, like most things regarding Carol and Negan, Natalia hadn't taken it lightly when Carol had revealed that she had housed the man in their old cabin, forever ruining the home they spent three years in.

But his exile hadn't lasted long, not at all.

Considering the fact that the man had waltzed towards the Alexandrian gates, setting his sites on Maggie, Natalia, Carol, Daryl and Hershel, all stood around supplies, as they made arrangements for the excursion.

"Oh, what the fuck." Natalia sighed.

"Language." Hershel told her.

Daryl let out a small snort.

"Sorry, kid." Natalia winced.

Carol shared a look with the three adults, before walking ahead, to go talk with the largely hated man.

"Nose still looks messed up." Maggie commented, quietly.

"Good. Maybe it'll teach him to keep it out of my business." Natalia glanced at her.

"Where's the A-Team off to?" They overhead Negan ask.

"Looking for food at an army base Daryl found." Carol answered him. "If we find anything, I'll bring some by your cabin."

“Your cabin.” Natalia cruelly mocked.

Then he spoke to her quietly, so soft that they weren't able to eavesdrop, anymore.

"What the fuck is she up to, they're smiling." Natalia sounded frustrated.

"Ahem." Hershel cleared his throat.

"Alright, kid, the earth ain't gonna collapse." Natalia patted his cap.

He nodded at Carol, walking further in Alexandria, turning to smirk at the two women as he ventured into their home.

Daryl had been in charge of his army base mission, which meant he called the shots.

"We're ready." Natalia held his side, sharing the view he had been fixated on as they prepped to go in through the skylight into a pit of sleeping walkers, that were mostly made of bones and dust.

"You don' gotta go down." Daryl said.

"No, but I want to, seems fun." She smiled.

"Y'need a hobby." He told her.

"We are taking care of seven kids, this is my hobby."

"Should try knitting."

"Come on, you can do the honours of being in charge of my rope."

"Like I'd let anyone else do it." He grumbled as they walked towards the others.

Maggie, Natalia, Rosita, Kelly, Magna, Lydia and Carol were the ones to be hoisted down.

"Don't die." Daryl told Natalia, as he made sure the rope around her waist was secure.

"Not gonna." She brushed her lips against his.

"Let's do this." Rosita winked at her, exchanging a low high-five. "Gonna be fun."

"Yer both messed up."

"And looking for a great time." Daryl pinched Natalia's waist at that comment.

The women had been lowered silently and carefully, to the ground, in order not to wake any of the walkers.

Only one seemed to be stirring, groaning to itself in the dark.

They turned, spotting a door, and Natalia signalled that was their location, it was just a matter of tiptoeing over the bodies, without accidently tripping.

Natalia looked up, nodding at her husband, with a small smile, before venturing on.

Magna, the skilled woman that she is, was the one to pick the lock, whilst the others stood guard.

Carol looked around at the weapons that lay on the floor, whilst they stood there, with a look back, she was met with unapproving stares an shaking heads, from Maggie and Natalia, wasn't worth the risk.

When the padlock clanged open, Magna held her breath as they searched for movement, but when there was none, they carried on.

They entered a hallway, walking towards the last room, an Inventory, Maggie and Natalia stayed guard whilst Magna and Kelly took out the two walkers on the floor, that had still been asleep, then they scavenged.

The next part of the plan was relaying the bags back up, using their ropes that they were brought down by.

It was going great, until the rope Alden was pulling up decided to snap, sending the bag down, but Daryl was quick enough to catch it, ripping his arm open in the process.

As though it were happening in slow-motion, a drop of blood dripped down his arm, landing on the face of an asleep walker, that was now.... not so asleep.

As the walker growled itself awake, the noise and movement had stirred the others to wake up from their coma.

Natalia drew her knives as the others drew their bows, Lydia was quick with her stick and Rosita with her spiked knife.

Natalia jumped to action, kicking and pelting her knives into their heads.

And then gunshots started, glancing around she looked at Carol and Maggie, as they shot at walkers.

"Hey, I want one of those!" She called.

"Go!" Carol called, as Lydia and Kelly got hoisted up.

"No fun." She grumbled, attaching herself as she was lifted back into the sky with the others.

Carol was the last to come up, but in usual Carol fashion, she had spotted something that caught her eye, unclipping herself to go after it, the others had to pitch in to help before she could come back.

"You okay?" Natalia asked Daryl, checking his arm, when everyone was back up safely.

"M'fine." He kissed her hair. "You alright?"

"Always." She smiled. "No one died, and we got what we needed, mission accomplished.”

When they made their way back to Alexandria, with a bag full of food, they were greeted with the small Grimes and Dixon kids,

"Mommy!" The twins cheered.

"Yeah, I survived, too." Daryl commented, as he hugged Judith and RJ.

"My babies, awee, I missed you." Natalia squeezed her girls peppering kisses on their cheeks.

"Dadda." Archie stretched his hands up to be picked up when they stood, again.

"Least he still cares." Daryl grumbled at the twins, picking up the boy.

"Dad, Archie bit, again." Daisy told him.

"What?" Natalia asked. "Who?"

"RJ" Judith answered. "But it wasn't bad, see, he's not even bleeding."

"Easy for you to say, you're not the one he bit." RJ told her.

"Sorry, 'bout that bud." Daryl told him, checking Archies gums, whilst Natalia examined RJ's arm. "Ow! Sonava bitch, bit me too." Daryl shook his hand, away from where Archie had just bit his finger.

"Daryl, you wanna repeat what you just said?" Natalia asked, taking Archie out of his hold.

"Son of a- M'sorry." He mumbled. "But he bit me."

"He's a baby."

"Archie can do no wrong in Mommy's eyes." Daisy scoffed to the other kids, Bambi giving an eyeroll.

"He's only little." Judith excused.

"Archie, say sorry." Natalia said expectantly. "That wasn't very nice. Sorry?"

"Sorry." Archie pouted, looking down as he grabbed at Natalia's hair.

"Noo, can you say sorry to Daddy?" Natalia poked the man, speaking gently to her son.

"Sorry, Dadda."

"And give kiss?" She poked Daryl's cheek.

Archie reached over, kissing his fathers cheek, and he responded, kissing him back.

"Good boy, now can you say sorry to RJ?" Natalia put him down in front of the other boy. "For biting him."

"Sorry, AreGee."

"And give your cousin a hug?" The baby hugged the boy, and RJ hugged him back.

"That's okay, Archie."

"Good boy." Natalia picked him up again. "And you're not gonna bite again, are you?"

The baby shook his head.

"Good, or the next time that you bite someone, I will bite you, and Mommy doesn't want to do that, because that's not kind, got it?"

Archie responded by giving Natalia a kiss, and wiggling for his father to hold him, again.

"There, settled. Parenting." Natalia mini bowed to her twins.

They weren't massively thrilled, when they had to report to an council meeting that day, but alas, they suffered, together.

"One week." Gabriel explained the food shortage, to them, after witnessing the fight that was breaking out between the people.

"That's it? In that last run, just a week?" Daryl asked.

"We can make it work." Aaron was in deep thought.

"How? We just took in two new communities." Carol started. "We have no crops, no back stock."

"We can get there. Got people out there right now, scavenging houses for materials" Aaron continued.

"And they're slowing down. It's a little hard to put up a wall with broken tools and an empty stomach."

"Our people are good hunters. Frost and I could take a group out." Agatha, one of Maggie's people, volunteered.

"Ground's all spent. The last big horde scared all the animals away." Daryl broke the news to them.

"Yeah, we struggled enough just bringing that deer back, like, two weeks ago." Natalia commented, twirling her hair.

"We can find new territory." Daryl suggested.

"We don't have time. We need food. Lots of it. Now." Gabriel shot him down.

It was silent, for a moment, before Maggie broke it.

"I know one more place. The place I lived before this. Where we lived." She looked to her people. "Meridian. It's got plenty of food, water, crops, and animals."

"Yeah, and now it's gone." Elijah reminded.

"So, what happened out there?" Rosita asked.

"We were on a mission. Leading walkers away. Duncan, Agatha, and Frost took the last shift at the front of the herd. Going miles out. I circled back with Elijah and Cole. On the way back home, things kept going sideways and we got stuck out on the road. Looking back now, I don't think that was an accident. All of a sudden, we heard these screams in the distance. We raced back home. But it was too late. Most of our people had been slaughtered. And the rest of us barely got away with our lives. The people that attacked us... we only knew two things about them. They come at night, and by the time you see them, you're already dead. That was before we caught one."

She looked at Daryl, which made Natalia look at Daryl, he did what?...

"Daryl was with me. He came after us alone. Why? Because there aren't that many of them. They're at Meridian now. There's plenty of food to feed Alexandria 'til we get this place back up and running again. That's why they took it. We just need to take it back."

"So... you're leaving to fight ghosts. That's the plan?" Aaron asked her.

"You have a better one?"

"Shore up Alexandria, for starters. The walls are not stable. Walkers will get inside. That's not if, it's when. Alexandria needs us."

"This is for Alexandria. My son is here. I have skin in the game, too."

"Yeah, but if they slaughtered everyone once, what the hell makes this situation any different?" Rosita questioned.

"Duncan, Agatha, and Frost are Meridian's best fighters, and now I have them. And hopefully, some of you, too."

Daryl and Natalia shared a look, she reached to him, linking her index finger with his.

"Maggie, this sounds like a suicide mission." Rosita sighed, not convinced at all.

"Well, if we don't have food, it's not gonna matter, anyway." Daryl let go, standing up. "I'll go. Anybody else?"

Gabriel was the only one of their people to volunteer.

"Natalia?" Maggie looked at her, speaking quietly, as though they were having a private conversation. "Please. We could really use having you on our team."

She sighed, glancing at her husband, then Rosita. Before making a decision.

“Would you watch the kids?”

“Of course” Rosita nodded at her.

"Fuck it." She sighed. "What's one more bed-time story to tell the kids."

Daryl ruffled her hair, as they left the building, ready to head off to Meridian, to fight ghosts.

Next

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Awww, my janky daisy chain of a DVI to HDMI cable plugged into a HDMI to USB-C adapter is no longer working :(

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Finally out together my new PC but it is experiencing Issues™ of connectivity variety that I fear will require convoluted solutions or God himself to resolve.

Maybe tomorrow I'll see if I can daisy chain internet between my laptop and the new bitch to solve my problems.

Cable management is also non existent cause I'm just happy it even fucking works lmao

[doozclops]

Fans: in

Cables: daisy-chained

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CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler Review – Redefining Silent Power for Gamers and Creators

If you're serious about performance, thermal management is not an option—it's a priority. Whether you're an enthusiast pushing your CPU to its limits or a gamer who wants the best blend of style and silence, liquid cooling is the way to go. Enter the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler, a powerful and intelligently designed cooling solution now available at Phantoms Tech for a jaw-dropping price of ₹6,875 (MRP ₹14,999).

Packed with CORSAIR’s industry-leading engineering, advanced RS120 ARGB fans, and a sleek, minimalistic aesthetic, this cooler is built to outperform while looking stunning in your custom build. Let’s break down why this is one of the most exciting and value-packed CPU coolers you can buy right now.

Why CPU Cooling Matters More Than Ever

With the rise of multi-core processors, AI-driven workloads, and high-frequency gaming, your CPU can quickly turn into a mini-furnace. Overheating can throttle performance, reduce hardware lifespan, and in worst cases, cause system crashes. Whether you’re using Intel's latest LGA 1851 platform or AMD’s powerful AM5/AM4 chipsets, thermal management is critical.

This is where the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS steps in with an optimal mix of performance, silence, and simplicity.

Unboxing the Beast: What's Inside

When you open the box, you’re immediately struck by Corsair’s commitment to quality:

240mm Radiator with pre-attached tubes

Two RS120 ARGB PWM fans

Pump unit with pre-applied thermal compound

Mounting kits for Intel LGA 1851/1200/1700/115x and AMD AM5/AM4

Daisy-chain cables for simplified ARGB and fan control

User manual and warranty information

Everything is neatly packed and easy to set up, even for beginners.

Performance That Speaks Volumes (Quietly)

Let’s talk specs and performance. The CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS isn’t just another AIO cooler—it’s a masterclass in low-noise, high-efficiency thermal management.

Efficient Low-Noise Pump

The heart of any AIO cooler is the pump. Corsair’s engineering ensures strong coolant flow at only 20 dBA, making it one of the quietest pumps in its category. No buzzing, no vibration—just a soft hum that fades into the background.

RS120 ARGB Fans

These fans are more than just pretty lights. Featuring CORSAIR AirGuide Technology and Magnetic Dome Bearings, the RS120 fans push high static pressure airflow directly over your radiator fins. With speeds of up to 2,100 RPM and PWM control, they strike the perfect balance between silence and cooling.

Zero RPM Mode

The fans can entirely stop spinning when temperatures are low, making your PC whisper-silent during idle or light workloads. This feature is especially appreciated in a home office or studio setup.

RGB That Syncs Seamlessly

The ARGB (Addressable RGB) experience with the Nautilus 240 RS is simply spectacular. Each fan includes vibrant, customizable RGB LEDs that can be synchronized with your motherboard's 5V ARGB header. Whether you're using ASUS Aura Sync, MSI Mystic Light, Gigabyte RGB Fusion, or ASRock Polychrome, this cooler will blend perfectly with your system’s lighting theme.

And thanks to easy daisy-chain connections, setup is a breeze—no more hunting for multiple headers or messy cables. One 4-pin PWM and one +5V ARGB header is all you need to power and control the entire cooling system.

Designed for the Latest Platforms

Compatibility is often overlooked until it’s too late. Luckily, the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS supports:

Intel LGA 1851, 1700, 1200, 115x sockets

AMD AM5 and AM4 platforms

Whether you're rocking a 13th-gen Intel Core i9 or a Ryzen 9 7950X, you’re covered. Future-ready and backward-compatible, it’s a worry-free investment for any build.

Build Quality That Screams Premium

From its solid radiator construction to the braided tubing, every component is built with longevity in mind. The matte black pump block adds a sleek, industrial look, while the fan frames are sturdy and free from any rattling. Even the included mounting hardware feels more robust than you’d expect at this price point.

With dimensions of 27.5L x 12.5W x 12.5H cm, this cooler fits easily into most mid-tower and full-tower cases without compromising airflow.

Installation: As Easy As It Gets

The plug-and-play nature of this cooler is one of its strongest selling points. No complicated wiring, no proprietary software bloat—just:

Mount the radiator and fans.

Secure the pump block onto the CPU.

Connect to your motherboard’s 4-pin PWM fan header and 5V ARGB header.

Boot up and enjoy.

Whether you're a seasoned builder or a first-timer, you’ll appreciate how effortlessly everything comes together.

Real-World Results: What to Expect

Let’s talk numbers. In tests with an Intel Core i7-13700K and Ryzen 7 7800X3D, we observed:

Task

CPU Temp (Idle)

CPU Temp (Load)

Fan Noise

Stock Cooler

40°C

85°C

Noticeable

CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS

30°C

63°C

Silent to Low

That’s a 22°C reduction under full load, giving you massive thermal headroom for overclocking or demanding AI tasks.

Perfect for Gaming, Streaming, Editing & AI Workloads

This isn’t just a gamer’s cooler. If you’re working in:

Video editing (Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve)

3D rendering (Blender, Maya)

AI-assisted design and machine learning (TensorFlow, Stable Diffusion)

High-intensity multitasking or simulations

…then you know your CPU can run hot for long stretches. The CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS maintains consistent, low temps that help ensure system stability and performance.

Eco-Friendly and Power Efficient

Running at just 15 watts, this cooler is impressively energy efficient. You’re getting high-performance cooling without adding a significant load to your PSU or your electricity bill.

Why Buy from Phantoms Tech?

✅ Genuine Product Assurance

Phantoms Tech deals only in 100% original, sealed Corsair products with full manufacturer warranty.

✅ Unbeatable Price – ₹6,875 Only!

Why pay ₹14,999 MRP when you can grab it from Phantoms Tech at over 50% off?

✅ Fast Delivery & Secure Checkout

Enjoy a seamless online shopping experience at Phantoms Tech, India's premier destination for custom-built PCs and high-end PC components.

✅ Expert Support

Need help with compatibility or installation? Phantoms Tech’s tech experts are just a call or chat away.

Final Verdict: A No-Brainer for the Price

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade your cooling system without breaking the bank, the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler is the answer. For just ₹6,875, you’re getting:

High-performance, low-noise cooling

Stunning ARGB visuals

Wide compatibility

Simple installation

Pro-level features like Zero RPM mode and daisy-chain cabling

At this price point, there is nothing else on the market that competes in terms of value, design, and performance.

Ready to Upgrade? Order Now from Phantoms Tech!

Don’t let your CPU run hot and noisy. Upgrade your build today with the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS ARGB Liquid CPU Cooler from Phantoms Tech and experience premium cooling without the premium price.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1: Is the CORSAIR Nautilus 240 RS compatible with Ryzen 7000 series? Yes, it fully supports AMD AM5 sockets, including Ryzen 7000 series CPUs.

Q2: Do I need Corsair’s iCUE software for RGB control? No, RGB control is managed through your motherboard's ARGB header.

Q3: Can I overclock my CPU with this cooler? Absolutely! It provides enough thermal headroom for moderate to high overclocking.

Q4: Will it fit in my mid-tower case? With a radiator size of 240mm and compact dimensions, it fits easily in most ATX mid-tower cases.

Q5: What’s the warranty on this cooler? It comes with Corsair’s standard warranty, typically 2-5 years, depending on region and reseller.

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Seamless Integration with EtherCAT Master Technology

In today’s fast-paced industrial landscape, the ability to integrate systems with minimal complexity and maximum performance is not just beneficial — it’s essential. As industries adopt smarter, more agile automation solutions, EtherCAT Master technology is emerging as the gold standard for achieving high-speed, synchronized control across a wide array of devices and applications.

What is EtherCAT Master Technology?

EtherCAT (Ethernet for Control Automation Technology) is an open, real-time Ethernet-based fieldbus system developed for automation applications. At the heart of every EtherCAT network lies the EtherCAT Master, which acts as the central controller that manages all communication and synchronization between slave devices such as sensors, actuators, drives, and PLCs.

The EtherCAT Master sends out a data packet that travels through all devices and returns with status updates, ensuring real-time control with minimal latency and jitter.

Why Seamless Integration Matters

In industrial environments, integration isn't just about plugging devices into a network — it's about ensuring those devices can communicate effectively, reliably, and without unnecessary delays. Seamless integration with an EtherCAT Master offers:

Plug-and-Play Connectivity: Most EtherCAT-compatible devices are designed for rapid configuration and interoperability, enabling quick setup and reduced engineering time.

Real-Time Communication: Achieve deterministic data exchange that ensures systems respond in real-time — critical for applications like motion control, robotics, and CNC.

Hardware & Software Compatibility: Modern EtherCAT Masters are compatible with a broad range of automation components and support various operating systems including Windows and real-time operating systems (RTOS).

Scalability: As systems grow or change, EtherCAT networks can be expanded easily without impacting performance, allowing industries to scale operations without redesigning infrastructure.

Key Benefits of EtherCAT Master Integration

Low Latency and High Precision EtherCAT Masters deliver cycle times as low as 100 µs, enabling tight synchronization across distributed nodes — ideal for high-speed manufacturing or robotic control.

Simplified Network Design The daisy-chain architecture of EtherCAT reduces the need for complex switches or hubs, resulting in simpler wiring and lower installation costs.

Robust Diagnostics and Monitoring Built-in monitoring features enable quick detection of failures, cable breaks, or device malfunctions, improving uptime and maintainability.

Cost Efficiency By using standard Ethernet hardware and cables, EtherCAT reduces the cost of integration compared to proprietary solutions.

Applications of Seamless EtherCAT Integration

Industrial Automation: From packaging lines to material handling, seamless EtherCAT Master integration improves responsiveness and reliability.

Robotics: Enables tight coordination between axes and components, improving accuracy and performance.

CNC Machines: Provides the speed and synchronization needed for precision cutting, milling, and forming.

Testing and Measurement Systems: Real-time data acquisition and control for high-speed, data-driven environments.

Conclusion

Whether you're building a new automation system or upgrading an existing one, seamless integration with EtherCAT Master technology offers unmatched speed, flexibility, and reliability. By reducing complexity and boosting performance, it enables manufacturers to stay competitive in an increasingly connected and automated world. https://kingstar.com/products/ethercat/

Interested in learning how EtherCAT Master integration can transform your operations? Visit us or get in touch:

200 Fifth Avenue, FL 6, STE 6020 Waltham, MA 02451 Phone: +1 781 209 2810 Fax: +1 781 795 0158 Email: info@kingstar.com

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The bizarre thing is that this is such a basic thing when it comes to making electronics. Anyone who has had a computer for a while or built it themselves will know how to troubleshoot a failure. Like oh the screen isn't displaying, is the cable loose? Is the cable broken? I'll try putting it in a different machine to test. Is the port on the pc or the monitor broken? Etc.

Like the whole point of things being separate is not only to not stop everything from breaking at once (which is disastrous for a car) but also to make diagnosing the problem easier. Having to replace 1 large cable everytime something goes wrong is a massive waste of resources, money for the user and just fundamentally terrible design.

Like not understanding this is genuinely absurd because that means you've never used a phone or a computer or replaced a cable or used a TV ever in your life, something making this to the first draft is incredible.

And it's not like daisy chaining doesn't exist, it's just typically it's for linked devices like fans on a computer, but those are still detachable and able to connect to the power supply on their own.

This guy has never used a computer before and is part of a car and spaceship manufacturing company. This guy should not have any control over the designs.

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Setup Orbi Mesh Network Using www.orbilogin.com

Orbi devices are widely used to create a robust network at home or offices by the people. Orbi networking devices are very popular among users. The devices are known for their performance. You can easily create orbi mesh network setup using orbi router & satellites. Buying orbi wifi systems & setting up the device at home will convert your home into a WiFi hub. Let’s check out the installation and setup of orbi mesh network using www.orbilogin.com web address. In the further segment of this article you will find the breakdown of the process into easy to understand steps. Read the article till the end to do the configuration by yourself. 

Orbi Mesh WiFi Installation

Orbi mesh WiFi system installation is a very simple process. You just have to follow the below specified steps of hardware installation. 

Begin with the orbi router device setup. Firstly unplug the modem device and place the router closer to the modem. Use the yellow ethernet cable you got with the router device and connect it with the modem. Then power up your modem device. Also connect the router device with the power and begin the router setup. 

Once the router device setup is complete, you can start adding satellites into the network. Place the satellites closer to the router to configure them. Power up the satellites and begin to add them into the network. 

Orbi Mesh WiFi Setup

Initiate the orbi mesh network setup using the www.orbilogin.com. Before initiating, make sure you have a modem device with working internet, computer/ laptop with the latest browser installed in it, and ethernet cable. If you have all, you can initiate the setup process. Setup process is divided into four parts which are further splitted into steps to let the user understand it better. 

Access Web Interface

Start with connecting your computer/ laptop device with the router network. You can connect it using the ethernet or wireless method.

After that, launch the web browser to get access to the web interface. 

In the URL bar mention www.orbilogin.com web address and hit enter key on your keyboard. 

As the site opens, you have to enter the login credentials. Default login credentials are admin for username and password for password field. 

Further click on the login option and then you will get access to the login page. 

While typing the login credentials be careful, any mistake in the credentials lead to failure. 

Configure Router

Configure orbi router by choosing the language and then move ahead to change the admin login details. 

Thereafter create SSID & password for your router’s wireless network.

Complete the configuration and then add the satellite to the network. 

Add Satellites

There are three ways to add the satellites into the network. You can connect the satellites using a wireless sync button, using ethernet cable or using a switch. 

Wireless Method: To add the satellite into your home network without cable, you have to press the sync button if you purchase satellites separately. In case you got the satellite with the wireless system then you need not to do anything except powering them. 

Wired method: To create wired setup there are two ways to connect a satellite with a router. First and primary way is to take the ethernet cable and connect the satellite directly to the router. Secondly, you can connect the primary satellite to the router and then second satellites to the primary satellite and so on. 

Switch: You can also connect the satellites with the router using switch. For this connection you need to use the ethernet cable and connect the router with the switch first. After that connect the satellites with the switch using the ethernet.  

Finalize Setup & Optimize. 

Once all the satellites are added, you have to make changes in the other security settings and then setup guest network. Also you have to enable or disable WiFi Multimedia Quality of Service, daisy-chain topology, implicit beamforming, MU-MIMO or fast roaming feature. Once you optimize all the settings and secure the network you can leave the web interface. Last step of the setup process is testing the network. For testing you have to use a wireless enabled device. Connect to the new network and browse the internet. Play online games and watch videos to check the network speed. In case required then place the satellites strategically to new locations. 

Conclusion

From the crux of the above description it has been concluded by me that the setup of orbi mesh wifi system is not a hard task using www.orbilogin.com. By following the steps mentioned in this article anyone can easily configure the system. You can enjoy seamless network coverage at your home after the orbi mesh network setup. Whether you are living in a multi story house or in a big home, you will get network coverage everywhere. From the basement area to the top of your house, you can enjoy a high speed network everywhere. In case you got stuck somewhere while performing setup and don’t know how to proceed further then you can take help of technical experts.