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Re: Cable Colors
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:13:49 -0500 (CDT)
But for proper cabling, see http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000I1X6PM -- and make sure you read the comments...*That* link requires a put-down-your-coffee warning. Most notable is the number of stars in the rating, which goes hand in hand with the comments. Thank you. I still have tears in my eyes.
And it's all relative. One of the comments was: "You can get the exact same connection from a $5 digital cable." And I found myself thinking, "at that price, even that's a rip-off." But that's bulk wholesale pricing I'm thinking of, I guess, or make it yourself. Speaking of cables and veering off towards cable-making, I was wondering what people thought of the so-called "EZ RJ45" stuff. One of the hazards of doing long-term cut-to-length wiring is that if a crimp really goes wrong, you might mess up your artistic work or need to re-cut a new cable. Even having done as many cables as I've done, I occasionally have one go bad. The EZ stuff looks like an interesting compromise, does anyone with a few thousand crimps worth of experience with it have any comments? ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- Re: Cable Colors, (continued)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Abley (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 17)
- RE: Cable Colors Steve Dalberg (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors Peter Wohlers (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Derek J. Balling (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Owen DeLong (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Lynda (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joel Jaeggli (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Pete Templin (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Mark Foster (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Joe Greco (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors Jay R. Ashworth (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard George Imburgia (Jun 16)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard JoeSox (Jun 17)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard Glen Turner (Jun 19)
- Re: Cable Colors - A Standard Nathan Ward (Jun 19)