• @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Really common with quality premade cables.

      You know, the ones used in datacenters

    • @Dehydrated@lemmy.worldOP
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      226 months ago

      Almost every Ethernet cable has this, you can search for RJ-45 cables on Amazon and you will basically always see something like this.

    • @neidu2@feddit.nl
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      176 months ago

      Very. While the specific length and position of the protective varies between brands, the concept is very common in high-end premade cables. All of the premade RJ45s I use at work have it. The purpose is so that you can pull the cable in one end without the plastic clip snagging in some other cable and breaking.

    • Echo Dot
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      I believe it’s part of the standard so, all of them. Unless you get your cables from some cheap Chinese knockoff brand, but I don’t imagine that any business would do that. Not worth the risk.