About a month ago I got an ad trying to sell me Cat8 patch cables and I noticed they were 28 AWG! Something like this:
https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=45413 I don’t think these would be good POE cables, and I am dubious about (a) whether I need Cat8 cables and (b) whether I would trust 28 AWG for even non POE. I thought Cat6 cables were often 23 AWG so I thought higher Cat meant heavier gauge, not the opposite. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 8:38 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Been using the wrong patch cables. Now I've had some fun, if I wanted to give monoprice the benefit of the doubt, I would guess that what they're really trying to say here is that these are larger (normal) gauge and real copper and not CCA. There are some thin/super flexible cables out there that use rediculously thin conductors and some cheap cables which are CCA - neither of which are good for PoE. On Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 7:36 PM Forrest Christian (List Account) <li...@packetflux.com <mailto:li...@packetflux.com> > wrote: I got an email from monoprice today offering "PoE Patch Cables". Yes, they're marketed as completely different skus from their normal patch cables. Apparently all this time I've been under the mistaken impression that regular patch cables work with PoE just fine. /s
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