[PLUG] Docking Station! was: Right angle cat6

Ronald Chmara ron at Opus1.COM
Sat Oct 27 02:17:26 UTC 2007


On Oct 26, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
> Ronald Chmara wrote:
> ...snip...
>> I've seen networks crippled by 20-30% throughput by people
>> "neatening" their connections, throwing harsh right angles into the
>> mix,
> ...snip...
> I guess this is why high-speed runs on PC boards are always straight.

LOL, I was thinking of that as well, last night, so two things to  
ponder:
a) That's using a *slightly* different set of materials. ;)
b) It actually *is* why high speed runs, on many high speed computer  
parts, are as short and have as few hard angles as possible. It  
actually factored heavily into supercomputer design as far back as  
the CRAY-1 days, and is still important in the most speed sensitive  
areas.... but *much* slower devices, like video cards, hard drives,  
daughtercard busses, etc (places where anybody can look and see all  
kinds of inventive angling), well, it's just not worth the time, or  
money, or manufacturing expense, to really optimize the "cable run".

Of course, in terms of "bang for the buck", YMMV. One only needs so  
much "ooph" to read email. :)

-Bop



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