🚀 go-pugleaf

John Chapple wrote about me, flattery mode on:

> You must be being modest. I'm quite 'good' with my hands, but you've
> only got 1/4" from the cable grip where they are in tight cylindrical
> form to where they've all lined up in a row! Blinking impossible I'd
> call it! Especially if you want to be thorough & 'do' all eight!

I always do all 4 pairs consistently, though it is fiddly. Although 
they're not needed at present, I just know that if I don't do a 
proper job, some time in the future I'll find this ready-made cable, 
just right for for the 4-pair standard currently in use. Or I'll try 
to be mean and use the remaining 2 pairs to run another workstation 
off...

> Interesting, well the ones I've got have got basically two spikes (like
> the BT ones) presumably then these are for the stranded cable 

I'm not sure about BT cable. The cable that runs into IDC _sockets_ 
is solid-conductor. Plugs possibly always go on multi-strand cable.
The RJ45 plugs I use are transparent, and have visibly gold-plated 
connectors.

> No not even at home, that's why I went for RJ45's here as opposed to
> BNC, though I'm wondering whether I will be slower for instance copying
> now due to more interference now? It's a small room & there's a lot of
> ring main telephone extension stuff under the floor.

You shouldn't have trouble with interference under any but extreme 
circumstances -- that's why the pairs are twisted tightly. BNC is not 
unreliable in itself _if_done_properly_; but a cabling connection 
anywhere will bring the whole network down, not just the offending 
workstation. UTP (RJ45) doesn't suffer from this. BTW, properly done 
UTP cabling will support 100mbps working (with appropriate NICs and 
hubs); normal speed for both UTP and BNC is 10mbps.

Best wishes,
-- 
Michael Salem