100foot cat5=lag?

[Kyle W]

I dont think so but I just wanted to make sure before I get 100 feet of cable and find out my ps2 will lag. Just wanted to make sure before I spent the 60 bucks! Any comments would be great! Thank you

 

[spidey07]

not any delay that you could perceive.

 

[Kyle W]

Thanks!

 

[spidey07]

well to get supremely technical there is a delay with a longer cable. But the cable "speed" is something like 70% the speed of light so if you wanna count that.

 

[SinNisTeR]

60 bucks for 100 feet? whoa

 

[Gerbil333]

A 100ft cable should not cost $60. Aren't they like $10 shipped on Newegg?

 

[scottws]

Maybe he's buying it at Best Buy. They mark up all their cables like 1300%+.

I recently got a 6 ft. 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable from Best Buy. Retail it is $31.99. My friend who works at Best Buy bought it for me with his employee discount, which is 5% over store cost on anything in the store. It cost him $1.97. That means the cable cost the store about $1.88. That's a 1700% markup on that particular cable. Crazy.

 

[GreyMittens]

Originally posted by: scottws
Maybe he's buying it at Best Buy. They mark up all their cables like 1300%+.

I recently got a 6 ft. 4-pin to 6-pin Firewire cable from Best Buy. Retail it is $31.99. My friend who works at Best Buy bought it for me with his employee discount, which is 5% over store cost on anything in the store. It cost him $1.97. That means the cable cost the store about $1.88. That's a 1700% markup on that particular cable. Crazy.

OMG - I *hate* Bestbuy and Futureshop for cables. I was in a huge bind once for a 6' patch cord which set me back like $16.00. Such a scam... they only need to sell 20 cables a month (be it computer or 'monster' audio cables) and they can pay their staff and store lease for the month.


edit: and to OP..

(100Base-t IEEE 802.3u)
100Base-T4 Category3 or 4 = 100Metres (4 pair)
100Base-TX Category5 = 100Metres (2 pair) ~330'
100Base-FX Multimode fibre = 2Km , single mode 10Km

(100VG IEEE 802.12)
Category 3 , 4 or 5 (4 pair) = 100Metres
Multimode fibre = 2Km

 

[sjgmoney]

Anybody ever use a long S-Video cable (50 feet-ish)? Any problems? I wnat to run one from my computer to my TV.

Not to hijack the thread or anything but....

 

[GreyMittens]

Originally posted by: sjgmoney
Anybody ever use a long S-Video cable (50 feet-ish)? Any problems? I wnat to run one from my computer to my TV.

Not to hijack the thread or anything but....

http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=2008&sku=29161 50'
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=2008&sku=29162 75'
http://www.cablestogo.com/product.asp?cat%5Fid=2008&sku=29163 100'

I can't imagine they'd be selling them if they were totaly crap. From what I've read on cables in my days of the home theatre a 50' svideo will have zero issues.

 

[The Green Bean]

I have 100 + feet of CAT 5 passing through 2 switches and I get <1ms pings ...However I have DSL which pretty much makes that useless.

 

[Cheetah8799]

I'd also like to say that $60 for 100ft of CAT 5 is insane expensive... You'd be better off buying a 500ft spool and the tools to make your own custom-length cables...

 

[Zorba]

When Iwired my house I bought a five hundred foot spool for about 40 bucks.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
I'd also like to say that $60 for 100ft of CAT 5 is insane expensive... You'd be better off buying a 500ft spool and the tools to make your own custom-length cables...

As long as the cable is put into jacks that's fine. It's when people start crimping ends onto the cable that causes trouble.

 

[BSEagle1]

Yeah OP, go to newegg or something. Radioshack, Bestbuy, etc. Are total pirates when it comes to pricing on cables and adapters. Don't support the filthy capitalist money mongers

 

[scottws]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
I'd also like to say that $60 for 100ft of CAT 5 is insane expensive... You'd be better off buying a 500ft spool and the tools to make your own custom-length cables...

As long as the cable is put into jacks that's fine. It's when people start crimping ends onto the cable that causes trouble.

I've heard this several times on this board. Why is that? Is it a lack of trust that the person doing the crimping knows what order to put the wires in? Or is there a general problem with the tools and connectors utilized in self-crimping?

I ask because I've crimped RJ45 connectors onto CAT5 cable a few times and never had any trouble with the resulting cabling not working.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: scottws

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Cheetah8799
I'd also like to say that $60 for 100ft of CAT 5 is insane expensive... You'd be better off buying a 500ft spool and the tools to make your own custom-length cables...

As long as the cable is put into jacks that's fine. It's when people start crimping ends onto the cable that causes trouble.

I've heard this several times on this board. Why is that? Is it a lack of trust that the person doing the crimping knows what order to put the wires in? Or is there a general problem with the tools and connectors utilized in self-crimping?

I ask because I've crimped RJ45 connectors onto CAT5 cable a few times and never had any trouble with the resulting cabling not working.

Most times the cable won't pass a CAT5/5e scan/test and often leads to poor or flaky performance - even with the correct pair order) Add to that the solid core wire isn't supposed to be moved much it makes for a poor patch cabled. When the norm is 90% of all network problems are cable related, why take the chance?

It's just considered really bad practice in "professional" network installations. And 1000 Base-T is even more stringent on a cable truly passing cat5/5e specifications.