• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    how common are those specific types of cables? The ones with that specific “protective boot”

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      11 months ago

      Really common with quality premade cables.

      You know, the ones used in datacenters

    • Dehydrated@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      Almost every Ethernet cable has this, you can search for RJ-45 cables on Amazon and you will basically always see something like this.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve seen some really cheap ones that don’t have it. But the vast majority of cables like that I’ve seen have the protective boot.

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      I believe it’s part of the standard so, all of them. Unless you get your cables from some cheap Chinese knockoff brand, but I don’t imagine that any business would do that. Not worth the risk.