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For people who don't "get it", I ask them if they think a Monster Ethernet cable would make the colors of the websites they view more crisp and vibrant. If they

For people who don't "get it", I ask them if they think a Monster Ethernet cable would make the colors of the websites they view more crisp and vibrant. If they say yes, don't even bother.

InclinedPlane 15y ago
If they say yes tell them that monster cables are a scam, but you know about the REAL good stuff. Them sell them an ordinary hdmi or ethernet cable at a 10,000% markup.
- lucasjung 15y ago
  Just like the Smart Engineer: http://xkcd.com/670/ http://xkcd.com/670/
Andys 15y ago
Unfair comparison. Ethernet and TCP have checksums and can retry failed transmissions, so you could have a cheap, crappy cable and you wouldn't know except for a slower transfer rate.
- Derbasti 15y ago
  UDP doesn't…
  - dfox 15y ago
    Almost any link layer has it's own error detection and correction that is significantly more effective than TCP checksums, so "UDP doesn't" is not that relevant.