I went to CompUSA and just grabbed a regular ol' Cat 5 patch cable. When I came home and plugged it in, the computer and the router would both not recognize it, just like my other ethernet cable.

But even the standard generic CAT-5 was pretty amazing, and some people started to look at it for non-data applications. So, 10 years ago at Belden, we ran some tests. Yes, 10 years ago! Figure 1 is a ...

Future Mrs. Hamster, the podlings, and I moved into a new rental home last weekend. After a long, tiring, and expensive ordeal in the middle of an Arizona ...