Once upon a time, Wayne E Bouchard <w...@typo.org> said: > And that's the main reason I never order cables with boots on them. > They're mostly just unnecessary headaches. (BTW, you forgot to mention > them slipping loose and just pulling away from the connector or the > tab slipping out from under the rubber and making the cable all the > more difficult to remove.)
I have seen one good use for boots. Somebody had a cable (that was in a position that made it difficult to replace or re-crimp) that had a RJ45 with a bad tab. It wasn't broken off, but it wouldn't really latch into the jack. So, they pulled the boot back slightly and slipped the "bump" of the boot _under_ the tab, and that held it up and the cable stayed in. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
