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wtf is a ;thumbsdown: when you need it?
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And ive been using these to label cables for years, cheap and never comes off, call it lame all you want, it works. Spend all you want on your pretty flags or color coded labels, this has never failed me. Even for pulling cable from one end of a building to another.
The software has it for thread not as in text smily.
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You honestly write - LOUKY-US-BGR1-TE3/1/4 , R3PP4CC23 on a cable with a sharpie?
You honestly write - LOUKY-US-BGR1-TE3/1/4 , R3PP4CC23 on a cable with a sharpie?
Never had to write that much on a cable... ever, you number them when you are pulling so you can label all the terminations appropriately. You asked for something to label network cable, how the heck was i supposed to know you were writing a flipping novel on the stupid thing. We used a simple 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... etc, at the most in some of the larger projects 1-1-2A01, 1-1-2A02 etc, never anything that long. Not everyone's labeling needs are the same. Had you provided the example of the shpeil of stuff you were intending to write on said cables, i wouldnt have suggested the sharpie sir.
he wasnt the OP, and I expect that if all the OP needed to write was "1" and "2" he could have figured out how to use a sharpite.
Descriptive labeling on a cable to a standard set for a given environment is a huge help in a room where a rack could have several switches and patch panels going to a multitude of devices and switches and rooms and buildings and such. That kind of information needs to be recorded somewhere, and doing it directly on a given cable is a huge time saver. I did it once on a sheet of paper for a rack with 100+ jacks in use, and it was such a bitch to find out which cable was what until we labeled them all later on.
Okay, point taken, but then how does he know what the OP is writing on the cable, for all intents and purposes of the OP, the sharpie may be perfect.
We use Brady TLS2200's, and have been extremely happy w/ them.
The labels wrap around the cables firmly and don't peel off unless you really try.
They're not cheap though...~$900 listed.
http://www.bradyid.com/tls2200
Uh, no. Anyone who thinks a Sharpie is adequate for more than the most basic "tell this cable apart from this other cable" needs has never worked in a real enterprise networking environment, especially not one that is subject to strict auditing requirements for management and security. As xSauronx pointed out, if all I needed was a Sharpie I wouldn't be asking this question.
Thanks for the recommendations folks.
Well think what you want, but a drop is a drop, and as long as the numbers are the same on both ends, then you know where the drop is. However i never claimed to have worked in a enterprise networking environment, as far as i am concerned thats gruntwork and i've only done it a handfull of times in my career. I am more of a network systems administrator than the guy that builds the infrastructure. While I was half serious about the sharpie because i have used it before, the other half means i was half kidding but apparently no one cares and ya'll are too wrapped up in your own important seriousness to have seen that. So if ya'll will excuse me, I will not be returning to this thread for any reason. Good day, and good luck in your quest for a labeler, it seems this Brady labeler is getting some recommendations.
