since I honestly do not care if they fail to meet spec yet still perform. If I were a professional, I might care, but not as a standard consumer.
this is the problem when people come to forums and have network problems, and blame it on everything but the cables.
They think that if i works it ok but it could be unstable and be the real source off the problems
How do the below spec cables misbehave? Is it randomly or would it be consistently bad performance?
I have always had good luck with Belkin Ethernet cables. I even order them for my home.
Belden is fairly decent quality in bulk spools, and their pre-cut (5/10/20 ft) are good...
Granted, but testing the cable by replacing it with a known-good cable is quick & easy.
Would a bad cable apparent in the network statistics as erroneous packets? Over the past decade, I do not remember ever seeing more than a few packet errors whenever I viewed the stats displayed by the ip/ifconfig commands. My pfSense box says 11 errored packets out of 36million, which does seem higher than I would expect...
How do the below spec cables misbehave? Is it randomly or would it be consistently bad performance?
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