On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 02:15:00PM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > kelsey hudson wrote: > >I have to tell you, perfect length cables sure do look sexy. > > > > But is it really worth the time? Why not use regular cables and tidy it > up with some velcro? I have been debating if we should be making our own > network cables or buying them. We don't make enough to be any good at > it. It takes me a good 10 minutes to make a cable probably. And then > sometimes they don't test out. I have a lot more faith in the > reliability of machine made cables.
At least Ethernet patch cables you can buy as 3', 5', 7', 10', 14', 25', etc. Powercables, it's whatever they gave you... a white box usually comes with a 6' cable, and the ones that came with my Proliants are like 10' or 12' I've made a fair number of Ethernet cables recently, and even though I'm fairly fast at it and it doesn't take 10 minutes, it does take like 5. A giant PITA. Much nicer to have a box of nice, new cables of varying lenghts and colors! -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
