they're done worse with the hardware - in the garage with the GPU rigs there were a few brief shots of a cisco 6500 chassis with totally the wrong linecards for what they would be doing. actually a 6500 would be the wrong platform entirely.
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In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magic xylophone, or something? Ha ha, boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
And why do we take your word over Gilfoyle?
How so? I find it incredibly accurate given that:
a) 6500's are versatile and can be used (with vary degrees of success) for a variety of purposes: switching, core routing, edge routing (not great), load balancing, even IPSec services with things like the SPA modules.
b) They're incredibly power hungry, so the bit about needing more power is apropos.
c) They're still used in lots of places. Ever seen a budget hosting colo? Chances are there's a 6500 there.
d) They're stupid cheap on the used market. The fact that there's even still a used market for the 6500 shows how venerable and long-lived it is.
That said, I do want to stab the first person who suggested using it as an edge router exposed to Internet traffic.
Is this your own brand of satire or are you not aware you're entirely the person being satirized?
it's more meta than that, the 6500 satirizes itself with how people use it
If you want to get into the garage hardware scenes at least mention the bandwidth required to pull that sort of thing off.
Or that in reality if they were using a p2p CDN the users would be absolutely losing their minds on reddit/HN/etc for using their bandwidth without permission