dhork

dhork t1_jacgj18 wrote

You should call the 401k provider and explain the situation. They will tell you whether you have enough in the account to be able to leave it there. If so, you can just chill until you come back and decide what to do with it. I have left money in prior company's 401ks for over a year before. It may not be a long-term solution, in my case after a year I got hit with fees and that prodded me to move it.

Moving it is actually quite simple: you open up a new Rollover IRA account (perhaps even with your current bank), and that bank gives you directions on how to tell your 401k provider how to send them the money directly. If it's sent directly, you won't have any tax implications for the transfer other than filing an additional form with this year's taxes.

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dhork t1_ivp4qcb wrote

I wonder how Mitch feels about stealing Obama's Supreme Court appointment now. I bet if he put Merrick Garland up for a vote back then, there would have never been a reversal of RvW. There would have been a lot more complacent Democrats who didn't bother voting, and he would be preparing to take the gavel away from Chuck right now.

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dhork t1_iujj6t8 wrote

Speed of light is (roughly) 1 ns per foot. Your problem won't be latency, but signal degredation. Standard Ethernet uses twisted pair copper wire, most of the time good quality cables can only go about 100m before having signal issues. cheap cables will degrade over shorter runs.

So get some decent Cat 5e or Cat6 cable for this, even if your run is only a few 10s of meters.

https://www.diffen.com/difference/Cat5e_vs_Cat6

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