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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 116552" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: STP vs. UTPRegarding this cable, while not enjoying raining on the parade:One of the things that I think we learned from our Audio Over Ethernet Cable workshop was that every cable we examined save one could be made to disrupt the data flow (whether by losing sync or what, I don&#039;t know, but we assumed we were losing sync) by a combination of squeezing and pulling the cable, or by a group of people stomping on it randomly. The one that wasn&#039;t disrupted had a fairly substantial HH patterned longitudinal spacer inside the cable, keeping the four pairs apart and in the same physical relationship to each other regardless of external forces.My hypothesis was and is that the disruption is caused by the capacitance/inductance/whatever between the pairs changing as the relationship between them is physically deformed and changing over time. The disruption disappears when movement stops.So seeing the cross section of the upcoming cable that does not show any spacers/filler whatsoever makes me anxious about its performance under physical duress. It will be interesting to hear the reports of early adopters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 116552, member: 2826"] Re: STP vs. UTP Regarding this cable, while not enjoying raining on the parade: One of the things that I think we learned from our Audio Over Ethernet Cable workshop was that every cable we examined save one could be made to disrupt the data flow (whether by losing sync or what, I don't know, but we assumed we were losing sync) by a combination of squeezing and pulling the cable, or by a group of people stomping on it randomly. The one that wasn't disrupted had a fairly substantial HH patterned longitudinal spacer inside the cable, keeping the four pairs apart and in the same physical relationship to each other regardless of external forces. My hypothesis was and is that the disruption is caused by the capacitance/inductance/whatever between the pairs changing as the relationship between them is physically deformed and changing over time. The disruption disappears when movement stops. So seeing the cross section of the upcoming cable that does not show any spacers/filler whatsoever makes me anxious about its performance under physical duress. It will be interesting to hear the reports of early adopters. [/QUOTE]

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