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Mike & i recently tested 295 ft of uncoiled CAT6 for science TL;DR - the heat caused both coiled & uncoiled tests with the same cable to fail CAT6, but otherwise the results between them were so close we came to the conclusion that coiled vs uncoiled makes very little difference in performance 👍🏼

21/7/26, 2:33 pm9 reposts74 likes

omgitsbees

@omgitsbees.bsky.social

21 July

I have a 60ft CAT6 cable and I thought that was too long. :O

mig 🇺🇦

@miguelaya.bsky.social

nice!

I love your collabs. So much stuff is going in at the other end of this field and people just forget where network communication starts. Please much much more of that!

J. Peterson

@isonno.bsky.social

21 July

What's up with the "Cable is too long" message?

TracketPacer

@tracketpacer.com

22 July

twas the heat (it thought it was too long because of the high insertion loss)

Name_Too_Long

@nametoolong.bsky.social

21 July

I did not know that human-tolerable heat could affect CAT6 cables. What's the mechanism at play there?