[ALUG] Wifi again

[Chris G]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:20:59PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:49 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> 
> > You can definitely buy 30 metre ones and probably longer.
> > 
> > Or you can get female<-->female RJ45 connectors
> 
> CAT5e Cable is currently at 15p a metre, the crimp on ends are nothing
> and the crimp tool is available for the price of a McMeal if you only
> want one good enough for occasional use. Then you can enjoy network
> cables made to exactly the right length for the rest of your life.
> 
> Also every long ready made cable I have seen in PC World etc is not only
> completely insanely overpriced (in that you could buy enough of the
> things mentioned above to make 10 of them, including the tools) but also
> multistrand cable which is not to spec for cable lengths > 10 meters.
> 
Well don't buy from PC World then!  :-)

If you do a search on Google Products for "30m cat5e" then you get
loads of hits and prices start at less than £5.

> Oh and the female<>female RJ45 connectors are evil and should only be
> used when there is no alternative.
> 
Yes, but sometimes there is no alternative.

-- 
Chris Green