[wplug] Good hubs and what not.

[Vincent DiAngelus]

Rob, 

That might be true, but I've seen the exact opposite true. We have had connections that were installed to the letter and when we tested them we couldn't even get a 10mbs cert! It was because one cable connected to the Patch panel was kinked. It doesn't always cause problems, but it can! 

Everything I said was right from EIA/TIA certification. 

Vince D. 

  Rob Nelson <ronelson at vt.edu> wrote: 

>connecter. It is better to buy your cables then make them due to the loss
of >signal with the tiniest of mistakes. The cable can not be untwisted more
than >1/4 of an inch, this makes it extremely hard to correctly make a
"good" patch >cord. They don't have to be that expensive. Just look on the
net. you'll find 
>
>
>
>tips on how to install catagory cable correctly. Even so much as bending it
too >much can cut you from Cat5 to Cat3 very quickly! 

With all due respect, where did you get your info? We have wires at work
that are untwisted for at least 1", the blue wires have been glanced with a
knife blade, and there's a right angle in the wire so that it fits in the
switch. They test just as well as the ones that are untwisted so little they
barely touch the contacts, have no bends in them, and the wires are wholey
intact. As long as your orange, orange-white, green, and green-white wires
are whole and any glancing wounds don't touch anything else metal, you will
generally get 90%+ signal on 10. With 100, you have to make sure all 8 wires
are intact, but you can untwist them for half a foot and they'll still work
- trust me!

Rob Nelson
ronelson at vt.edu

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