Ethernet cables

[Huge]

Where do you buy yours? I especially want the ones with boots over the plugs to stop the retaining clips from catching on things and breaking off.

[Andy Burns]

[Huge]

Kewl, thanks.

Not worth making my own for those prices.

And such pretty colours!

[The Natural Philosopher]

Almost anywhere. Used to get them from IIRC blackbox or Nimans.

These days they seem to adorn every PC/TV retailer in any high street

[whisky-dave]

on which colours to get now there's a real problem,, finding one that matches the scatter cusions and the curtains without clashing.

[Andy Burns]

Yeah, at about 15x markup

[GB]

Those guys seem to have a £30 minimum order value. You can also get these leads on Amazon at similar prices, but maybe without the boots.

[Lee]

On 30/01/2013 11:36, GB wrote: Ebuyer do the snagless ones as well, at about the same price.

[Dave Liquorice]

CPC, occasionally Toolstation if I need some and I'm going anyway.

The mainstream retail sheds have them true, but at a price. Fine for a distress purchase of course...

Colours?

Red - Main WAN connections - don't fiddle unless you want people shouting at you for loss of the internet. B-) Blue - ISDN. Yellow - Crossover aka "phase reverse".

[Man at B&Q]

They'll also sell you the boots

[Owain]

Grey short Blue 3 metres Red 5 metres White 10 metres Yellow short phase reverse Black VoIP

Owain

[Andy Burns]

Red servers Yellow desktops Blue phones Green printers Orange DMZ Black SAN White ILO Violet internet Grey ISDN/RS232

[Andy Burns]

so handy if buying ready made cables ...

[Huge]

That's OK, I want to rewire the study anyway.

The boots are a requirement - that's why I'm doing this.

[Huge]

Dirty side of the firewall.

Demised several years ago.

Does anything much care any more?

[Mike Barnes]

Dave Liquorice :

All different.

In the back of my network switch are black, grey, yellow, blue, red, purple, orange, pink.

[Tim Watts]

On Wednesday 30 January 2013 10:31 Huge wrote in uk.d-i-y:

CPC are usually good on price.

[Paul D Smith]

Where do you buy yours? I especially want the ones with boots over the plugs to stop the retaining clips from catching on things and breaking off.

[John Rumm]

I find the ones with "humped" tabs either side of the clip are nicer to use than the booted type. Unlike the boots, the tabs don't make it harder to operate the clip when unplugging.

[Andrew Gabriel]

Almost always have some on offer in their leaflets. Loads of different types, styles, etc.

Never bothered to compare prices, as they're so cheap anyway, and usually tagged onto an order for other things.