this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah like this:

Instead of like this:

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've never seen one of those outside of this image.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're pretty common in nicer datacenter environments. Newer cat6a is only 28awg (tiny and easy to work with!) and can do 10gb just fine.

For example:

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Huh, good to know. Next time I'm looking for cable, I'll keep this in mind. Thanks.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Ah. It's better than nothing but I still have had trouble pulling cables like the top image. Those blocky edges get caught on things...