Glad to see cbit bite the dust

Cheers!!

On Apr 7, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had a few 'cat5e' runs at AW that were exhibiting strange issues - PoE 
> didn't work well, more at the device power-on where you'd expect a surge of 
> current. Crimps seemed really sensitive. Generally communication over them 
> 'felt' off. I bypassed them and guessed it was wire damage from the 
> construction but as I'm taking them down they seem undamaged.
> 
> I had heard of CCA 'fake cat5' before, 
> http://www.twistedpair.co/caution-using-cooper-clad-aluminium-cat5-cable/  
> but never seen any. Scraped some of the wires and to my untrained eye it 
> seems these are CCA. We can keep using them for analog cameras - didn't see 
> any problems there yet - but nothing else.
> 
> These came from 3 boxes of 'ATcom NWC-215-313' that were bought at CBIT. I'm 
> assuming fake products like this are one of the reasons they're out of 
> business now, but if you have any boxes sitting around you may want to toss 
> them.
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