Where to purchase LAN/Ethernet cables?

[napstersquest]

This I believe is not a pass-through connector?

Had actually ordered pass-through connectors with them (FEDUS), and was mistakenly sent these (the model with the ground prong). To their credit, they were quick to send the replacement, but the pass-through connectors do not have a ground prong (at least the ones they sell). So, anyone buying from them - it helps to double-check if the connectors have the ground prong and/or are pass-through.

Also, I had ordered a length of CAT7 while being aware that this is not a recognised standard (in the mistaken belief that CAT7 > CAT6A, which it generally is not). The CAT7 cables sold by them are fine for my purpose, but there are at least a couple of things that make it really hard to crimp:
1. The wires are stranded.
2. In CAT7 cables, each pair is shielded individually, and there is again another outer layer of shielding for all the pairs.

If still buying CAT7, use pass-through connectors to make things slightly more bearable.

Yes it's not pass through. Any idea where to get shielded passthrough connectors compatible with those CAT6A/7 cables from Fedus?

 

[codelad]

Yes it's not pass through. Any idea where to get shielded passthrough connectors compatible with those CAT6A/7 cables from Fedus?

Fedus themselves sell shielded connectors. As a matter of fact, I use their shielded pass-through connectors.

These however do not come with a ground prong/tail, but it should still be possible to ground the shielding by wrapping around the outer cable shielding such that it comes in contact with the metal part of the connector (as I have tried to show below). This took a bit of effort and I would have preferred the prong - but just cannot seem to find pass-through connectors with the ground prong/tail anywhere.

 

[napstersquest]

Fedus themselves sell shielded connectors. As a matter of fact, I use their shielded pass-through connectors.

These however do not come with a ground prong/tail, but it should still be possible to ground the shielding by wrapping around the outer cable shielding such that it comes in contact with the metal part of the connector (as I have tried to show below). This took a bit of effort and I would have preferred the prong - but just cannot seem to find pass-through connectors with the ground prong/tail anywhere.

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Okay, thanks. I will try to crimp 1-2 without the passthrough connectors and see how it goes, otherwise will order these.

 

[codelad]

Okay, thanks. I will try to crimp 1-2 without the passthrough connectors and see how it goes, otherwise will order these.

Hope you have better luck that I did. Found it frustrating without the pass-through connectors and gave up, and had them replaced with the pass-through connectors which I had originally ordered (but without the ground tail/prong).

The wires in my CAT7 cable were stranded, though. Also, the spacers provided with the connectors were way too large for these wires.