Homeplugs are another option ;)
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Homeplugs are another option ;)
Is there not a flat-profile version of the cable?
I'd like to be able to keep the NAS in the loft, so that would require some means of supplying power up there.
http://www.vpi.us/cable-sf.html
Yup, just got to find a UK supplier ;)
As I seem to be doing all the searching for you, here's one more on me (Google search terms were, surprisingly "flat cat5e cable" and I selected "pages from the UK")
http://www.cdlmicro.co.uk/html/show_product.php/pid/490
or
http://www.cdlmicro.co.uk/html/show_product.php/pid/491
No personal experience of buying from them though.
You're welcome :lol:
Flat ethernet cable is a really, bad idea. And calling it Cat5e is misleading advertising. It doesn't conform to Cat5e specifications if the conductors aren't twisted pairs.
Mmmm why? Just wondering. Can't imagine it would have a massive effect on cable quality?
We are not going to do all the leg work for you. I served up my specs on a silver platter, and my thoughts on wireless networking. There is a magically thing called [Evil]Google.
CAT5e is twisted pair so you can't make it flat. Anyone who says they can isn't selling you CAT5e.
Thanks for clarifying that, anyway...
It does. The twisting of the pairs provides electrical noise cancellation because of the way electrons propagate through a conductor. It also provides a level of shielding against crosstalk. The more noise in the environment there is, the greater the effect of frame corruption there is. TCP can usually handle this by re-requesting the same corrupt packets, but if the noise is bad enough it will give up and the socket will end up being closed.
That said, in low noise environments it can still be used with little observable performance loss. But it's still *not* Cat5e.