drvnbysound
Senior Member
My cable (which I don't know if it's UL listed or not) passes 1's and 0's without fail, and provides a Gigabit connection...
Is this UL hologram authentic? How can you tell?
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That is true for the majority of users out there.....until you need the performance and bandwidth.
Part of the reason there's a variation in construction of HDMI cables (not talking about the "monster" marketing model). If you did an X-ray of 3 HDMI cables at a low, mid and high price point, while the overall cable construction would be similar, the terminations are the achilles heel.
Most residences and equipment aren't really going to stress the cable and performance of the hardware compared to a more intensive application. It's not like most homes can even exceed the 90 M wall. That said, there's a difference between passing data and certifying the cable to work to the full standard....and then using it to close to that standard and not have it choke. Seen it happen many times.
Part of the reason there's a variation in construction of HDMI cables (not talking about the "monster" marketing model). If you did an X-ray of 3 HDMI cables at a low, mid and high price point, while the overall cable construction would be similar, the terminations are the achilles heel.
Most residences and equipment aren't really going to stress the cable and performance of the hardware compared to a more intensive application. It's not like most homes can even exceed the 90 M wall. That said, there's a difference between passing data and certifying the cable to work to the full standard....and then using it to close to that standard and not have it choke. Seen it happen many times.
You're absolutely right about the terminations, DEL. A few years ago, I was working on a high speed computer interface called InfiniBand. There were several manufacturers of connectors, and several other manufacturers of bare cable. Each component met the specs according to the standards. Then, the suppliers tried to make complete cables with connectors on them. It didn't matter much which brand of connector went on which brand of cable. No complete cable could meet the specs required by the standard. It took about a year of work between the connector and cable manufacturers before they could get it right. At high speeds, it doesn't matter how good the cable and connector are if the termination isn't perfect.
drvnbysound
Senior Member
Right. So what's the "typical" specifications of bandwidth/performance for a residential application? Not just ISP wise, but general networking where Category cable is involved.
I know that I exceeding the standard... recording/streaming HD video to/from a media server, streaming CCTV video (not all the time, but on demand), I have a persistent IPsec/GRE tunnel, multiple hardware machines which I do a fair amount of file sharing between, etc. I pulled cable from various boxes, 2 of which were MonoPrice cable; again, no issues :rockon:
Regarding terminations, I have Leviton Cat5E boards in my SMC, Leviton RJ-45 QuickPort connectors, and Ideal RJ-45 terminating connectors.
I know that I exceeding the standard... recording/streaming HD video to/from a media server, streaming CCTV video (not all the time, but on demand), I have a persistent IPsec/GRE tunnel, multiple hardware machines which I do a fair amount of file sharing between, etc. I pulled cable from various boxes, 2 of which were MonoPrice cable; again, no issues :rockon:
Regarding terminations, I have Leviton Cat5E boards in my SMC, Leviton RJ-45 QuickPort connectors, and Ideal RJ-45 terminating connectors.
NeverDie
Senior Member
FYI, received this from UL regarding the Monoprice Cat6 (above):
"This is to inform you that the investigation of the UL holographic label under the subject Product Incident Report has been pursued to completion.
Please be advised that the dual color-shift inks was phased out in January 2013 and replaced with a single blue background. The UL holographic label in question is featured with the single blue background and appears to be authentic."
"This is to inform you that the investigation of the UL holographic label under the subject Product Incident Report has been pursued to completion.
Please be advised that the dual color-shift inks was phased out in January 2013 and replaced with a single blue background. The UL holographic label in question is featured with the single blue background and appears to be authentic."