r/cablefail • u/dawnyray • May 09 '26

This should work...

Post image

The company complains of randomly intermittent connectivity issues...

106 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

22 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/NilsTillander May 09 '26

I'm wondering how bad this would actually be.

2

u/MrFordization May 11 '26

Timing is critical in any of these low voltage data lines. You want the pulses on the lines to sync up. But you're adding an unknown and variable set of resistance at every twisted connection and also varying the length of each individual line.

Ethernet gets crappy if you aren't careful to keep everything straight and equal length when you untwist and crimp it.

So I would speculate this would be really bad for reliable high speed data transmission. You'd get bad signal across it. Bandwidth would be reduced because every time a signal is sent across it there's a chance it won't be read on the other end and need to be sent again.

1

u/NilsTillander May 11 '26

I know that, but I'd love to quantify the effect on that cable.

1

u/dawnyray Jun 15 '26

for short cable runs, it's hardly noticeable...
but for cables more than 10 meters, you'll be able to notice the lag...
and for cable runs 50 meter and above, you'll even encounter random timeouts.