I have an inside source that told me CBiT commonly brought in fake products. And that he had even caught them bringing in Graphics cards that were labeled and cased as a high end one but the GPU was terrible. On Apr 7, 2013 12:26 PM, "Aemilianus Kehler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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