Increasing amounts of Cat5e cable is appearing on the market which is actually copper covered aluminium conductors (CCA). This does not conform to the specs required for high speed networking cable. When you buy Cat5e cable for networking, make sure it's solid copper, and not CCA. Some large new building installations have had to be completely ripped out and replaced, after the contractors thought they'd got a good deal on the cable, too good as it turned out.
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11 years ago