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Network cable color conventions? [closed]
Are there any color conventions for network cable? I'm talking jacket color here, not the color of the individual conductors. I've seen and used mostly grey and blue which is what's usually readily ...
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What causes network cable to not work?
I've installed a bunch of cat-5 and when I check it for continuity and polarity it seems fine, but when I hook up a pair of laptops with a x-over cord and try to ping between them, they can detect ...
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Fibre Optic Cabling - Where to start?
I'm a sysadmin/developer that works for a small IT company. We are having a new office building built, and we have a limited time window in which to put in the core infrastructure network cabling that ...
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Physical difference between Cat 5 and Cat 5e cabling?
(This isn't really server-related, but it seems more appropriate here than SO or SU.)
When we had this house built, we had network cabling run inside the house, or so I'm lead to believe. It's ...
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What’s the best way to label cables in a data center [duplicate]
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What is the most effective solution you used to label cables?
We're in the midst of planning for a big data center renovation at my office, which is going to result in a ...
