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I purchased this to link two switches together. This cable is well designed and of a good quality.
Not much to say about a cable, but it works like you'd expect. Three feet is short, but just what you need in some situations (between a router and wireless access point in my case).
The good news - it works great. Bad news is of course it's too short. If I were you, I'd get at least a 5 foot cable. You can barely set up a laptop on the same desk.
I purchased this with a new PC to make moving some files and settings over easy. It did connect after some tinkering with XP's networking but most of the files were corrupted in the transfer so I ended up having to move the files to a drive on my old PC and then install the drive on the new one. Don't know if this is trustworthy enough for other uses if you want to network two PCs, it didn't do the job for me. (Note I was using XP 64 on both machines and NTSC file system).
Most files is like a blink of an eye. Ran the Network setup wizard, everything works perfectly. Plugged one end into desktop, the other in laptop. Perfect if you have XP on both machines like me. No need for hubs, switches, all that expensive junk. Transfers info about 10 Mb per second - amazing. I don't know how other platforms work, but probably just fine too.Now that I have a 3 foot cord, I am thinking about getting a 40' one and drag it across the room. I have dial up internet, and wireless (as I understand it) requires high speed.
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