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[HopeHoops]

8. Dollar store cables might "work", but they aren't worth the risk. The cable lengths aren't right.

There's a strict standard for the tolerance between lengths on Cat cable wires and there's also a reason there are cables in the dollar store - they don't meet the standards. They might "work", but I wouldn't trust them. I trust the ones I make myself more, and I use quality equipment and materials to make them. I built parallel cables in the early 80's for weird shit that needed bridges from 8, 11, and 20, and all kinds of other weird combinations. I even made a break-out box because I could get funding to buy the parts but not to purchase one. It would have been cheaper to buy one, but hey, that's business for you.