I need to connect to devices that use an rs-232 connection, but I was wondering if I could use cat5 cable instead of rs-232 cable since I don't have rs-232 cable but plenty of cat5. The connection ...

After discovering that a single Cat5 cable was bottlenecking some devices on my network to 90 Mbps while the rest of my setup ran at gigabit speeds, I went deep into learning what actually makes one ...

Can someone recommend a good toner/probe to trace terminated cat 5 cable in bundles? I have a server rack with about 150 patched cat 5 ports, whcih are fed from 3 large cable bundles coming in through ...

This article was updated March 31, 2023. It was originally published Jan. 8, 2016. Engineers and designers who don’t regularly work with CAT data of cables, and even some that do, can get confused ...