How did that not get caught in the prototype stage? Like, did nobody ever test that thing with that type of RJ45 plug?
Because making shit / design isn’t as easy as most think. You think of a million things and then the millionth-and-one screws you over.
Early in my engineering career, I was told that a screw hole on a part needed to be increased one size. Not knowing any better, I increased the size but made the thread count the same. Little did I know that the machine shop head had recently gotten unfairly grilled by management about following engineering drawings to a T, and had adopted an attitude of malicious compliance. So rather than reach out to engineering to check if they really needed this obscure thread size, he instead just went ahead and purchased a new $7000 threading tool for that size that would never be used again.
I learned a lot that day about common fastener sizes and to always be nice to the machine shop head.
Oh yeah, the magical “chart”. As a tiny company / machinist shop I dread the day I have to order everything on it. But at the end of the day, it saves people hassle and you always have what you need. Luckily so far I only make stuff for my own use in the main job, which is injection molding.
Why is it raised at all? This should be a pinhole button
Because that is just one use of the Mode button. Pressing it changes what the port LEDs indicate, so cycling it lets you see status, speed, duplex, PoE status, etc. without having to connect to it. That isn’t easy without a raised button. Clear could have been separated as a pinhole and that would have been fine, but this stupidly placed button would still have been useless this way anyway.
Good god I can not stress enough how everything Cisco makes is just dog shit in terms of physical standards. A TV screen where the power cord plugs in to the bottom and there’s no route for the cable to go back up to where your electrical outlet is behind the TV, also using a power cable that sticks out of the wall farther than Cisco mount holds the display off the wall, so it’s crushed forever and always.
Oh a meeting room control? Let’s make it 1 1/2 rack units tall, so it leaves a massive gap into the rack from the front.
Touch panel inputs that you have to break the stand off to get to.
Cisco is just a fucking nightmare.
It confuses me how a company can basically invent an entire category of hardware, then proceed to do absolutely everything as terribly as possible after that.
New Cisco firewalls? Fucking suck.
Cisco switches? Good hardware, but they haven’t evolved configuration wise since like the mid 2000s, and licensing costs as much as the switch, for foreign based support that doesn’t even understand the question.
The ENTIRE FTD platform is an absolute insult to engineering and should single handedly be responsible for bankrupting Cisco, imo.
