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Re: Ethernet port on robot

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Originally Posted by nathannfm View Post
I would recommend doing this not only on your robot but your driver station as well. That port gets frequent use and my team had actually experienced the Ethernet port on the laptop fail causing us not to move in a match. Here is a company associated with FRC that sells the one that we now use https://www.estoprobotics.com/estore...d&productId=27
Agreed. We beat up our Classmate ethernet pretty badly, so when we got a new laptop, we made sure to use a pigtail for the connection.

There are enough things that can go wrong without worrying about the ethernet port...
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