Bitterjug’s blog

This is the label from a roll of chicken wire. Since our ISP is UUNet, this always makes me laugh.

I kept it for some time and then used it in this project:

I was building this thing:

Through the help of Chris and Cad, and of a local man in Tala who used to work in Goonhilly as a networking engineer, I have managed to assemble a small collection of network cable samples. They are, from left to right:

1. Some kind of thick coax with a screw connector. Not real thick Ethernet but something similar that I picked up on a visit to UUNet Kenya
2. Loose bundle fibre optic cable with four fibres
3. Unshielded twisted pair cable: four pairs of wires with an RJ45 connector
4. Shielded twisted pair cable: four pairs and a layer of foil shielding under the outer cladding
5. Wireless! X)
6. Thin Ethernet coaxial screened cable

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