Patch cable suppliers?

[tosca925]

I'm wondering what suppliers you recommend for patch cables? We need some cables around 0.3 m and 0.5m (not sure if any smaller)

We are trying to colour code some of our patch panels in our cabs so its easy to identify what goes where so a few good colour options would be nice..........!

[webman]

Videk

[ChrisH]

www.bownet.co.uk

[mattx]

Make your own - cheaper and alot more fun...... :-)

[tosca925]

Make your own - cheaper and alot more fun......

If only i had the time................!

[john]

Mills LTD - www.millsltd.co.uk

[pete]

http://www.rapidonline.com

[thom]

Try these out
http://www.theitindex.co.uk/login/ - Various colour belkin 0.5m cables for 31p each
http://www.cableuniverse.co.uk/catal...x&cPath=23_138 - bulk pack .03 x 50 for £22.13
http://www.datalinkcabling.co.uk/cat-5e.aspx?id=3 - from 59p each

Good luck organising your cabs. I spent a good couple of days doing that and it lasted about 3 mins before it got messed up again !

[plexer]

www.hillscomponents.co.uk

Ben

[webman]

Thom: Ours used to be the same We don't change that much stuff now though so it still looks neat

[acb_]

We've used Patchsave and had good service from them.

[markman]

Making cables is not fun, the last one I did started at 2m and ended up 6 inches!!

We find:
http://www.aria.co.uk

Cheap and their cables start at 41p inc vat for 0.5m

[Lee_K_81]

Thom: Ours used to be the same We don't change that much stuff now though so it still looks neat

Webman, i notice from your gallary you have some Buffalo Terrastations. Been looking at them as they seem a cost effective (read: cheap) NAS solution. They any good? Sorry to wander off topic.

[webman]

Hi Lee. Yes they're not bad ... there's a thread on here somewhere about the time we got them. We had one died after a power surge but was replaced rather quickly. There's a community built up around them with custom firmware available, but we've just stuck with the official one and integrated into AD nicely.

[markman]

Are there no problems with throuput on the Terrastations? would they be any good as file servers?