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.