On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 01:20:59PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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.
Don't buy cables from PC World then. These days premade cables can be had for amounts of money that make it a waste of time to make them by hand unless you need a particularly long run. They tend to be much better quality too.
J.