this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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[–] Shadow 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nah like this:

Instead of like this:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've never seen one of those outside of this image.

[–] Shadow 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're pretty common in nicer datacenter environments. Newer cat6a is only 28awg (tiny and easy to work with!) and can do 10gb just fine.

For example:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Huh, good to know. Next time I'm looking for cable, I'll keep this in mind. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Ah. It's better than nothing but I still have had trouble pulling cables like the top image. Those blocky edges get caught on things...