In the last two years, the number of ethernet cables that have given me trouble is insane. yes I know ethernet is a standard not a cable type but I'm not going to sit here and type cat5e/cat6/cat6a/etc. You know what I mean.
A decade ago I was terminating long runs by hand using generic Amazon CCA (copper clad aluminum) stuff and rarely had any problems. Today I'm buying name brand prefab Cat6 from Amazon or Home Depot - Monoprice, Cable Matters, etc... actual brands that in the past meant something. I sold the last handful of spools to some random dude on Marketplace a few months ago.
Yet here at home my Unifi APs end up stuck at 100Mbps or simply dropping offline. Ubiquiti's UI and app gives me zero useful information or alerts that my 2.5gbe AP is running at 100mbps. Thanks... not. But replacing the cable fixes the issue immediately.
Rinse and repeat for various clients. A decade ago I got one bad batch of cat5e cables from Monoprice. Like 50% failed within 6 months. But after that I've never had an issue, until now. If we can't make a network cable, how we can our planet still spin?
A decade ago I was terminating long runs by hand using generic Amazon CCA (copper clad aluminum) stuff and rarely had any problems. Today I'm buying name brand prefab Cat6 from Amazon or Home Depot - Monoprice, Cable Matters, etc... actual brands that in the past meant something. I sold the last handful of spools to some random dude on Marketplace a few months ago.
Yet here at home my Unifi APs end up stuck at 100Mbps or simply dropping offline. Ubiquiti's UI and app gives me zero useful information or alerts that my 2.5gbe AP is running at 100mbps. Thanks... not. But replacing the cable fixes the issue immediately.
Rinse and repeat for various clients. A decade ago I got one bad batch of cat5e cables from Monoprice. Like 50% failed within 6 months. But after that I've never had an issue, until now. If we can't make a network cable, how we can our planet still spin?
