Quoting Michael Peligro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Is it okay to coil patch cords? (Rick Moen must be laughing right now with my > English) We sometimes wind patch cords so it's neat, tidy, and doesn't sag. > I've heard that coiling patch cords is bad. The coil becomes a rough > electromagnet, causing interference and mucking up the signal inside the > patch cord. Is this true?
I'm not laughing: Your English is excellent, and I would have taken you for a native speaker. (I feel a bad penny, because not only do I speak only a few words of Tagalog, but the only other language I'm fluent in is French, and I'm rusty at that.) And I've made that error of coiling patch cords more times that I can mention. Yes, it's true that doing that creates an inductive field, and thus you really ought to lay the extra cable down in loose folds, rather than coils. -- Cheers, There are only 10 types of people in this world -- Rick Moen those who understand binary arithmetic and those who don't. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
