Amazon offers various Cat5e and Cat6 cable deals. Find discounts on these cables for your needs.
Amazon offers various Cat5e and Cat6 cable deals. Find discounts on these cables for your needs.
I found a couple of 2 for 1 offers on Amazon today and thought the promotions looked good. There are several longer runs available at very low prices—like 100+ feet of Cat5e for just $4.39 when buying two. They also carry other cables such as USB, all with similar deals. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/promotion/A3QOM63ZZBTF1M
I believe the discussion board includes a section for tech offers. It seems @wkdpaul frequently contributes there.
The store www.fs.com offers affordable transceivers and fiber optics. I found a 30m OM4 LC UPC to LC UPC patch cable priced at $35 for 10G/40G/100G speeds. My thought is the low cost comes from using a glass/ceramic composite material instead of true glass fibers. This isn't the same as the high-performance fiber cables used in modern internet networks, which rely on specialized glass and gas-infused strands. I doubt they can achieve 100Gbit over long distances due to minor imperfections in the cable.
I utilize them at 10Gbit using SFP+ connectors for a home network of 10Gbit speed. I'm curious about QSFP+ (40Gbit) to determine if it fits on a single 40Gbit link or if it's just four 10Gbit channels. It seems unnecessary to experiment with 100Gbit. The performance should surpass quad-channel RAM. To achieve this, I'd require an EPYC processor and eight-channel memory.