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Is your claim that manufacturers should be allowed to sell products with complete fabrications on the label because most of the time it is "good enough"? If ma
by xenadu02 8y ago
Is your claim that manufacturers should be allowed to sell products with complete fabrications on the label because most of the time it is "good enough"?
If manufacturers want to sell Cat 5E (or lower grade) cables they are free to do so, but the market won't accept the higher price they want to fetch for those cables.
It also means the manufacturers are either incompetent (doing no testing) or are knowingly testing the cables but not bothering to test them to the specification they are claiming on the package. Either way that's a crime.
- CamperBob2 8y agoIs your claim that manufacturers should be allowed to sell products with complete fabrications on the label because most of the time it is "good enough"? That certainly requires a creative reading of what I wrote. No, I'm saying that the test specs may be rigged to favor high-end cable manufacturers, and we may all be paying too much for cables as a result.
- xenadu02 8y agoThe cable tester they are using is setup to test the actual specification. That is to say they are testing the _very definition_ of Cat-5E, Cat-6, or Cat-6A. That's the thing about cabling standards: either you meet the requirements of the standard or you don't. I presume the committee that designed 100Base-T, 1000Base-T, and 10GBase-T didn't pick numbers out of nowhere for no reason. Your comment seemed to be using circular reasoning... if the standard is too stringent than it's just a free-for-all, or the manufacturer's made-up non-standard, but there is only one way to be Cat-6A: follow the specs laid out in the standard. Otherwise why even have standards?
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