[lug] Tad OT: Cat 5 cable interference?

[D. Stimits]

Pre-made cables are available at CompUSA. The fast cat 5e stuff is the
right side, it costs a couple bucks more, but not a lot. Several other
places sell such cable. You might look closely at what you have, it
could already be the fast cat or 5e cable. But without it a 100 Mbit/sec
network would definitely suffer over anything but a short short distance
(that is left undefined as to "short short", perhaps I should write
standards for a living, I could create things like "long long"...oops,
someone already did that).

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

Justin wrote:
> 
> Hmm, ok. Well, it's a 100mbit network and the cable is a normal 25'
> cat5 cable as far as I know. Where can I pickup the cat5e or fast cat
> cable at? The cable came as is so the connectors should be good and
> the entire cable is strung out straigh, no coils or bends. I might try
> swapping the network card in the winXP machine also to see if that
> does anything. Thanks.
> 
> Justin
> 
> > I doubt anything non-metallic would hurt it. But if you crush or bend
> > sharply RF cables, that can be bad for quality. Or winding it a lot
> > (adds inductance). More often connectors are on improperly, or the
> cable
> > itself was the wrong thing for the job to start with. If it is a 100
> > MBit/sec network, you should have the "fast cat" (cat 5e I think)
> cable.
> > If you put your own connectors on, be double sure that they are
> perfect.
> >
> > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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