Our cable adventure is coming to a close. First we took our two $340 AudioQuest Vodka Ethernet cables to Las Vegas and subjected one of them to a live listening test; listeners were unable to tell it ...

After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

Cat5 may still be an option, but Cat6 is faster, safer, and more durable Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, ...

Rohde & Schwarz has introduced a new compliance test automation software for high-speed cable assemblies and backplanes that meet requirements for IEEE 802.3bj, by, cd, and ck standards. Claiming the ...

Back in February, we ran a piece discussing a hyper-expensive "audiophile-grade" Ethernet cable, the Audioquest Diamond. An 8-meter version of the Audioquest Diamond costs about $4,500, and a 12-meter ...

Plugged into Fluke Networks' DTX cable analyzer, thesepatch-cord test adapters certify both shielded and unshielded Category 5e, 6,and 6a cable assemblies to ANSI/TIA 568-C and ISO 11801:2010 ...

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. In ...