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<blockquote data-quote="Dan Mortensen" data-source="post: 147623" data-attributes="member: 2826">Re: CableI am in the camp that says you&#039;ve been lucky.I am also in your camp in that I bought a bunch of that when I first got my X32&#039;s, which was before we definitively learned we needed STP (now I know we need to say FTP to be clear). That cable is a dream to handle and apparently take abuse. I love how the four pairs in each of the four cables is embedded in some kind of plastic so they don&#039;t move in relation to each other when pinched and squeezed, which should eliminate the problem I had that caused the workshop, while creating a new one every time there&#039;s an Electrostatic Discharge (ESD).In my case, I&#039;ve never used it and have no plans to.In your case, I think you need to replace the entire cable runs in order to be immune from ESD problems. If you don&#039;t do that, you might as well use the Gepco as it makes you no worse off.In my tests, the entire run needed to be replaced by FTP in order to avoid ESD.You might try using FTP to get to the conduit on both ends of the run, and being sure that the shells of the panel mount Ethercons connect to the conduit. Perhaps you can synthesize an FTP for the channel (in wall part). If you can, then your Gepco is as useless as mine.Couple bad choices, eh?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dan Mortensen, post: 147623, member: 2826"] Re: Cable I am in the camp that says you've been lucky. I am also in your camp in that I bought a bunch of that when I first got my X32's, which was before we definitively learned we needed STP (now I know we need to say FTP to be clear). That cable is a dream to handle and apparently take abuse. I love how the four pairs in each of the four cables is embedded in some kind of plastic so they don't move in relation to each other when pinched and squeezed, which should eliminate the problem I had that caused the workshop, while creating a new one every time there's an Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). In my case, I've never used it and have no plans to. In your case, I think you need to replace the entire cable runs in order to be immune from ESD problems. If you don't do that, you might as well use the Gepco as it makes you no worse off. In my tests, the entire run needed to be replaced by FTP in order to avoid ESD. You might try using FTP to get to the conduit on both ends of the run, and being sure that the shells of the panel mount Ethercons connect to the conduit. Perhaps you can synthesize an FTP for the channel (in wall part). If you can, then your Gepco is as useless as mine. Couple bad choices, eh? [/QUOTE]

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