[PLUG] cat 5E patch cable

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Mon Mar 23 02:48:02 UTC 2020


+1 on your radio suggestion.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 19:45 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I literally stumbled on internally broken wire - 13mm (1/2" for readers in
> Zimbabwe) from the cable end. Somehow it connected when clamping the ends
> together to measure them. Thankfully, there was enough difference when
> measuring wire pair capacitance from the broken end.
>
> The wire strand got cut by the cable jacket cutter - part of my fancy
> crumpling tool. The cable runs at 1Gb/s as it should.
>
> Well, it is likely the most expensive patch cable I had ever owned - hand
> crafted and individually tested!
>
> And it is probably one jeti foot too short the next time I need to use it.
>
> Probably one of the most painful ways to waste Sunday afternoon. Actually,
> that is an exacerbation,  accidentally listening to the WH breefing for the
> second time was way more painful this afternoon.
>
> I recommend All Classical to avoid other media morbid obsession in milking
> every little Covid bad news over and over.
>
> -T
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 16:03 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Russell Senior wrote:
> >
> > > I would really like a time domain reflectometer so that when I screw
> up a
> > > crimp I can tell which end I screwed up.
> >
> > They're rather pricey for occasional use. Sigh.
> >
> > > ... then cut off the worst looking end retry the crimp until either
> > > it works or I run out of cable.
> >
> > In my case I'd add when my fingers start cramping and don't want to hold
> > the
> > wires in the right order.
> >
> > Rich
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