[ale] A little gripe

[J.D. Forinash]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:42:34PM -0500, Ben Coleman wrote:
> Depends on how much cable you can expect to make.  I know from
> experience that the cheap crimpers will produce flaky cables.  If
> you're going to crimp your own cables, you should be willing to shell
> out for good crimpers.  If you need a limited number of cables, it may
> be less expensive (particularly when you figure what the time you spend
> in making the cables is worth) to buy pre-made cables.

We've also noted that once you factor in labor, even relatively cheap 
undergraduate-assistant labor, (for ethernet at least) it's once again 
cheaper to just buy 'em pre-made with the boots already on 'em. Even in
lots of a couple hundred. 

If you're just doing it yourself, heck, a good set of crimpers is worth 
it just for geek value. :) 

-JDF
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