How to utilise different colour ethernet cable caps (pic related) effectively when making own network cables (i.e what should the different colours represent etc.)? What is the minimum ethernet cable length were you won't run into issues (specifically with gigabit ethernet)? Anyone use Cat6 cabling in favour of good ol' Cat5e?
Also, home network general.
/hng/ - Home Network General
Austin Perry
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Kevin Flores
fuck off. sage and reported
Elijah Nelson
Why? There's many different ideas of a network cable colouring scheme, I don[t see how it'd be a worthless thing to discuss (as you seem to imply).
Lincoln Turner
I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I'm planning on setting up a second OpenWRT router and configuring it to transparently proxy all traffic through Tor. I was thinking of using red cables with that second router.
You mean maximum?
I haven't checked prices lately, but I was never able to justify the price difference. All my stuff it cat5e.
Alexander Campbell
Nah, maxmum passive lenght between active devices which refresh the signal is well known to be 100 meters. On the contrary, there doesn't seem to be a consensus concerning minimum lenght - some insist that it must be at least 1 meter, others say that they have used patch cables as short as a few inches with no signal degradation (supposed problem are reflections if the cable is too short?).
Dominic Perez
It's not political shitposting, so it doesn't belong here. Only retards screeching about trannies is appropriate for this board.
Liam Lopez
Jaxson Perry
I took a bunch of cat6a cables from my old job, and ran them to each room in my apartment with gigabit switches. I get about 120 mb/s when transferring files to my servers.
David Rogers
Nice. Any details on the setup? You have a gigabit switch in each room? Do you use wall sockets and a patch panel at main switch, or do you connect switches and end devices directly?
Jackson Jackson
OP I'm literally a network engineer at a tier 1 ISP and not even I give half a fuck about what color my cables are. Standard minimum length is 3 feet, but most equipment will work with shorter cables. All my cable is cat6 STP, I bought a 1000 foot spool of this shit from monoprice like 6 years ago and at least half of it is still in the box.