Very. While the specific length and position of the protective varies between brands, the concept is very common in high-end premade cables. All of the premade RJ45s I use at work have it. The purpose is so that you can pull the cable in one end without the plastic clip snagging in some other cable and breaking.
I believe it’s part of the standard so, all of them. Unless you get your cables from some cheap Chinese knockoff brand, but I don’t imagine that any business would do that. Not worth the risk.
how common are those specific types of cables? The ones with that specific “protective boot”
Really common with quality premade cables.
You know, the ones used in datacenters
Yeah every one of my Ethernet cables at home have that.
Almost every Ethernet cable has this, you can search for RJ-45 cables on Amazon and you will basically always see something like this.
Very. While the specific length and position of the protective varies between brands, the concept is very common in high-end premade cables. All of the premade RJ45s I use at work have it. The purpose is so that you can pull the cable in one end without the plastic clip snagging in some other cable and breaking.
I’ve seen some really cheap ones that don’t have it. But the vast majority of cables like that I’ve seen have the protective boot.
I believe it’s part of the standard so, all of them. Unless you get your cables from some cheap Chinese knockoff brand, but I don’t imagine that any business would do that. Not worth the risk.
Pretty charitable calling that fucking flipper a ‘boot’, I must say.
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