• 5too@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Why do they even make them with the clips? If someone trips on a cable or something, and there’s no clip, it’s a mild inconvenience to plug it back in. If it’s clipped, you can bring the whole computer crashing down!

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        Or stretch out the twists in the individual wires. That will also cause signal issues.

        IIRC, cat5 cables are rated for 50lbs of force on them. They’ll technically hold a lot more than that, but you can’t guarantee the twists will stay in spec.

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          If you stretch, kink, or squish a CAT5 cable, there is a good chance that it will not work at 1G even if none of the conductors are broken or shorted. Sometimes they will initially connect at 1G, then fall back to 100M after some random amount of time making troubleshooting more annoying.

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      Designed so they wouldn’t become another HDMI fiasco, where you have to search for aftermarket clips so your plug stays in. Now, do Displayports need it, probably not. They feel about as secure as a USB. But there is that fear going back to even VGA, where most worked fine without screwing them in, but just to make sure… (I can’t recall, did EGA have screws?)