tbh high bandwidth cables over copper are a bit of an anti pattern.
Would be a lot cheaper and compact if ethernet and video over fiber were more popular already
Please dont bend and pinch your cables. Make a loop as shown in the bottom middle.
Add a piece of string to tie it.
And no zip ties. Zip ties are for attaching cables to other things, and should never be tightened fully.
tie the cable into a knot, it’s the fastest and least damaging way to store cables
Just be careful unspooling it, it loves to kink up and any bend with a radius tighter than like 2 inches ruins the cable.
I once helped my brother run about 15 strands through his house and only around half of them actually worked when we were done. Wish we knew that when we started.
I mean they make HDMI over CAT extenders, just get a pair
HD baseT
Ugh this takes me back to my electrician days: trying to splice these fuckers in a dark, hot attic, with only a blue-hued headlamp to help you piece out what color everything actually was. Good times.
Patch cables are stranded, spool cable is solid. Spool is good for between jacks and patch panels, less good for crimping RJ45 ends onto.
You can buy stranded in spool too, and its not uncommon in shops that actually make their own patch cables, though most just buy them.
What are you talking about? You can get both solid and stranded cable on spool. Depending on the standard you might be required to terminate into a patch panel or jack, but you can get just about any cable on a spool you might want.
Like others said they come in both, I usually just buy solid and it works just fine for patch cables as well, no issues whatsoever crimping RJ45 onto em
Plus it always seems like stranded is just lower quality anyways, yea it’s more flexible, but how much flexibility do you really need? For most cases, not much
I’m my experience, long term reliability of crimped stranded cable (that particular combo, to be clear) has lower longevity with vibratory environments.
There are some crimps that are great for stranded, but the RJ series (and others which stamp down) generally don’t seem to be good enough.
Again, anecdotal, but yeah.
I think that has to do more with the heads being used and the quality of the cable than anything. I’ve seen tons of cheap heads on good cable, and it goes poorly after a while.
I generally recommend cable thats been third party tested for both performance and physical resilience. Haven’t seen any decent riser that wasn’t, but I have seen some patch from major brands that definitely wasn’t.
All the patch cables I’ve ever cut open (with the exception of one that came with my ISP’s modem) have been solid copper cable.
I’ve only ever had spooled stranded cable (with solid copper strands). It’s very good for making patch cables.
