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   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-05-29 13:21, Dan Purgert wrote:   
   > On 2025-05-28, Java Jive wrote:   
   >> Please excuse the Linux/Windows cross-post, this is a general question   
   >> about networking gear.   
   >>   
   >> I'm thinking of buying a CAT-Crimper, and was looking at this model ...   
   >   
   > Honestly, just purchasing ready-made patch cables is probably the better   
   > idea, unless you've got a specific reason to be terminating your own   
   > male cables.   
      
   Absolutely.   
      
   But sometimes you have too. Like having cables going out of the ducts in   
   the wall into a cabinet and avoiding installing a patch panel, but   
   connecting directly RJs into the switch.   
      
   Or needing non standard lengths.   
      
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