Cat5e cca flyleads

[ubercal]

Does anybody know if its normal for flyleads/patchleads to be made made using CCA ?

 

[adam_g]

i doubt it. it would probably cause packet loss common norm for CATx is UTP & STP

 

[rorz0r]

You can get both, but mostly you'll find CCA because it's cheaper of course.

 

[repitah]

Nope...

At best, maybe in a patch cabinet where everything is patched 1-1 (patch to switch; very short lengths) and never shall changes ever be allowed -- CCA is brittle from all the reports I read, so a tech/admin rummaging around in the network cabinet will probably do more harm than good (breakage at the crimp).

It might work better in tiny networks, where everyone is in sneezing distance of each other and total users can be counted on hands.

Just pay the extra money and get proper copper, unless you want to be replacing/fault finding and billing for time.

 

[ubercal]

I want proper copper patchleads but get really annoyed when the supplier doesnt state if its cca or not

 

[sajunky]

CCA is bad for infrastructure cable. It is even worse when CCA is used for patch cables, as alluminium breaks very easily.

20% of patch cables from Rectron had faults from the beginning, they did sync Gigabit initially, but minutes later link was dropping to fast Ethernet. I ended up making my own cables, had to use solid copper wire in emergency, as it was only things I had.

If it doesn't say pure copper, it is CCA.