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steveincolumbus · 02-03-2007, 05:22 AM

Normaly patch cable to me is anything 6 foot and under. Such as to connect a pc to a jack, or cableing within a rack. RJ45 is the connectors on the ends of the patch cables.

If I am refering to the lengths of cable that is ran around the building I refer to it as Cat5 or Cat6. These would be terminated by a punch down keystone type jack or patch panel.

Never refer to it as a LAN cable. The building I work in has twinax, fiber, token ring, ethernet, analog and digital phone ran all over. So I refer to it only as ethernetwhen I am talking about the network that the cable would be connected to.

02-03-2007, 05:22 AM	#5 (permalink)
steveincolumbus Psycho Location: BFE, Kentucky	Normaly patch cable to me is anything 6 foot and under. Such as to connect a pc to a jack, or cableing within a rack. RJ45 is the connectors on the ends of the patch cables. If I am refering to the lengths of cable that is ran around the building I refer to it as Cat5 or Cat6. These would be terminated by a punch down keystone type jack or patch panel. Never refer to it as a LAN cable. The building I work in has twinax, fiber, token ring, ethernet, analog and digital phone ran all over. So I refer to it only as ethernetwhen I am talking about the network that the cable would be connected to. Last edited by steveincolumbus; 02-03-2007 at 05:27 AM..