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Forget the crawlspace. If there is no spouse involved you can just throw the cord out the window and connect it downstairs.
by vageli 5y ago
Forget the crawlspace. If there is no spouse involved you can just throw the cord out the window and connect it downstairs.
- vidanay 5y agoI'm guessing you live in a very temperate region with no insects. LOL
- tedunangst 5y agoYou can usually sneak the thinner flat ethernet cables through the window seal without much gap.
- hyperman1 5y agoThanks for your answer. I was wondering what kind of insects were eating plastic cables. Doh!
- traceroute66 5y ago> flat ethernet cables Ethernet cables are round and have twisted pairs inside for a reason. CAT6 etc. have a plastic spine running down the middle for a reason. Flat cables are NOT ethernet and they are not "CAT" anything. They don't comply to any standards whatsoever. Don't waste your money supporting an industry making products that should not exist.
- Terr_ 5y agoI don't disagree that some of the marketing out there is misleading and customers may get a product with a lot of line-noise, but... > Flat cables are NOT ethernet Is this perhaps confusing signalling with the medium? If I take a modern home network and swap out all the cables with RJ-45 connectors for "flat" versions, and is still works and machines still talk to one another... what kind of network should we be calling that if not "Ethernet? Does the one true Ethernet require coaxial cables and vampire-taps of the 1970s, and everything in the last few decades has been mislabeled?
- zbrozek 5y agoIf the channel is is in-spec, then the geometry doesn't matter. The 802.3 series doesn't specify the cable geometry. They do specify channel parameters like FEXT, NEXT, IL, and RL across frequency ranges of interest. Maybe the CAT specs are more into the cable construction than the performance; I haven't read any of those.
- fuzzfactor 5y agoNot my downvote, but Your ethernet signal is basically an A/C pattern of square waves going down the wire. This is the analog manifestation of your digital data and it behaves like other analog signals going through wires. A twisted pair of wires naturally rejects outside interference better than a random arrangement. However truly parallel wires can be almost as effective under many conditions. An outer well-grounded shield sheath surrounding one or more sensitive conductors can provide even more isolation from nearby signals or noise. Unintended diodes caused by corrosion, unsoldered connections, or dissimilar metals can sometimes compromise analog representations of digital signals by causing assymetry during zero-crossing events.