Shout out for SlimRun CAT6A THIN cables

[806chau]

These thin CAT6A rated patch cables been available for a couple of years now but I just started to notice them and it's the best thing since sliced bread I tell ya. No more fighting to cable-manage with standard unwieldy stiff CAT cables, and u can buy from Monoprice bulk on the cheap to boost! Who wants/need to crimp their own dang cable? Thinner than a phone charger cable and even softer.

Not affiliated with Monoprice, not an Ad, but rarely am I excited about a product, 10 stars.

 

[bill001g]

The problem is to be CERTIFIED cables it must be between wire gage 22-24. Technically you can call any cable "CAT" whatever and it means nothing. That is why you see all the CCA cable on amazon being sold but again the standard says to be certified the cable must be pure copper.

Maybe they have updated the standard but the last I saw the cable wire restriction still apply. EIA/TIA certification is what guarantees the cable can actually pass traffic at the rates.

So companies can call a wire coat hanger cat6a but it does not mean it is certified and will operate in all situation. Then again some china based cable are actually fraudulently claiming eia/tia certification for cables so even that does not mean much.

Now some of these non standard cables may actually work for short distances but I would not trust running a 10g connection over a non certified cable. Anything that is actually using 10g is too important to risk on a cable.