• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    The cheapest way to get cables is to know somebody who crimps it themselves, but for the majority of people probably buy from shitty places like walmart for a 1,000% upcharge.

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      1 year ago

      That’s me lol. I’m still sitting on my spool of Cat6 I bought a few years ago. At pre-COVID prices it was approximately (CAD) $1 per termination, and $1 per 6 feet of cable.

      Today at Infinite Cables and other Canadian stores I can buy premade lengths at almost those costs, shockingly. Prices really came down.

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      1 year ago

      Pretty sure the biggest cost of crimping your own cables is finding a place to store the remaining spool.

      Or ensuring the spool is still useful 15 years later while everything has migrated to SFP/QSFP

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        Or ensuring the spool is still useful 15 years later while everything has migrated to SFP/QSFP

        Nah, the remaining spool will be useful for the rest of its/your lifetime, it always comes in handy as a generic 4-pair twisted pair signal cable for any non-ethernet purpose. I’ve used my old spool twice this year; first for an m-bus cable to my power meter and then for a limit switch for my garage door.