Comment by budman1
3 days ago
If you are just wanting "to use it", sure. If you are building a cable for a specific purpose, or want to actually ensure that it will work, use test equipment.
IT interconnect closet vs. air vehicle.
3 days ago
If you are just wanting "to use it", sure. If you are building a cable for a specific purpose, or want to actually ensure that it will work, use test equipment.
IT interconnect closet vs. air vehicle.
> If you are just wanting "to use it", sure.
Isn't that what most people here are really wanting? I don't imagine most people here are seriously wanting to know the exact extreme measurements, just "can this cable reasonably do what I need from it? Does it do what it claims on the label generally?"
People don't want "reasonably do". They want "resolutely do".
They don't say it like that, but: They sure do get grumpy when the Thunderbolt-connected display for their laptop shits the bed mid-afternoon on a Wednesday after a year, or the export for their recording session fails on a device they've done this with dozens of times before, or the cable connecting the camera they use to watch their cats no longer works: They get quite grumpy about these things, indeed.
So they want resoluteness, not reasonableness.
I know it's 2026 and many of us are used to using bots that are compulsively high-confidence liars.
But just go ahead and try to reason with someone about a local computer that fails tasks apparently-randomly. That's the makings of a bad scene. :)
I'm just meaning people here are looking for a "does it work", a binary yes/no. Not a precise measurement of exactly how perfectly the digital signal is making it through the wire. They don't care exactly what the SNR is or whatever, they just want to know when they plug in the cable for a given need will this cable work?
You don't need a six figure oscilloscope or logic analyzer to know "does it work".
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