Comments on: 60 inches of this ridiculous ethernet uber-cable costs $500

By: Frederik Schack

Frederik Schack — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:16:03 +0000

Sadly I know a person who would buy this cable… Same person believes that a coaxial S/PDIF must be of pure silver…. duh

By: DALLAS DOC

DALLAS DOC — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:41:35 +0000

wow the sound was very clean and distortion free after i replaced mine with this. The Ether glow was very warm too…i had to bump up my AC to handle the increase. The extra packets which were arriving made a lot of difference to spare some for my friends who i immediately e-mailed. i am replacing all my cables with these and i buy them for cheap from amazon for $500 each..its totally worth it ..the sound quality difference is unbelievable. i am saving $$ on my hearing aid batteries too..

By: DALLAS DOC

DALLAS DOC — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:41:35 +0000

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:15:35 +0000

You see, there is a little secret that I think people are missing out on. Generally, over CAT5 you are using TCP/IP. If that is they case, it has multiple levels of checksumming built in. IF and I stress the IF something goes wrong during packet transmission the packet will just get sent again… and again until it gets there safe and sound. This happens on 0.5$ cable and on 500$ cable just the same. Granted it may not be entirely true on UDP however this is assuming there actually is a difference in the cables. Which I am sure there isn’t.

By: KirkH

KirkH — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:33:10 +0000

Directional markings? It must be optimized for UDP.

I actually like seeing this stuff. People profoundly stupid enough to but that thing should be parted with their money as fast as possible… For the sake of Humanity.

By: Richard Kacerek

Richard Kacerek — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:50:41 +0000

Simply genious.
Will you find 10 people in the crowd who will buy it for $50 one one idiot who will pay $500 hahaha.

By: zippy

zippy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:18:06 +0000

I’ll bet whoever buys one of those cables would also be interested in my new 100% quantum compression system. All data is superimposed on one Q-bit. Unfortunately decompression is still theoretical.

By: whiskey

whiskey — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:27:31 +0000

You see there is an unexploited niche market here… Why not Swarowsky encrusted Cat5 cables… or maybe Hello Kitty themed?

This is like “Pay us to demonstrate you are dumb”.

I recently installed a 42 meters (139 feet 9.54 inches approx.) long cat5 cable, and you know what? Response times are the same as being right next to the router… Given the fact that they used 30 cents per meter (say 10 cents a foot approx.) made no difference in quality.

By: AtariJedi

AtariJedi — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:10:28 +0000

The only reason I would buy more expensive than norm cables is if I needed them to last a long time.