• StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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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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      1 year ago

      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.