Why the hell is White Cat-5 cable not available???

Factual Questions
1

OK, I amsure it is possible to buy it somewhere, but I finally fucking get my wife to agree to a newwork throughout our apartment on one condition, that the cables do not look ugly and they are white.

So I go to like literaly 12 stores to look for it. Everything is GREY! Who the hell wants grey cables? Of course most networks are behind walls, but it is now getting popular to have you own network isn’t it?

Am I the only one who finds this insane?

If anyone knows of a place to buy about 50 feet of “white” ethernet cable, please let me know. We were thinking about just painting the cable white, but that is super ghetto and a real pain in the arse!

blade

2

There’s this wondrous place called “The Internet” where you can buy everything. Including white Cat5 cable.

3

thanks, I did some looking, and found every fruit flavor on the planet, excpet white. I even checked Belkin’s homepage (the maker of the link you sent) , but they did not have this.

The real point is stores like Comp USA and Best Buy which are primariliy targeted to consumers should carry white cable not industrial grey.

blade

p.s. your internet comment is annoying, but your help appreciated.

4

Dude, I worked at Best Buy for a year, and we carried 50 foot lengths of white, gray, or blue cat 5. If you can’t find it, just use throw rugs or something.

–Tim

5

Friend, you might get more responses (and more polite responses)if you didn’t take such an angry tone. Is it our fault you can’t find what you’re looking for?

Chill, dude.

6

If color is really really that important to you, you could use standard phone quad wire which would support 10mb/s.

7

Annoying? Umm, please tell me that I’m not the first person to tell you that you can buy anything on the Internet.

BTW, you’re welcome.

8

Phone wire is not able to support Ethernet data transmission, even at the relatively slow speed of 10 Mb/sec. The wire you may be thinking of is Category 3, which was commonly used for data/voice because you can buy one type of cable for both. Nowadays, installing anything less than Category 5 is not recommended, if only because upgrading the network at a later date requires pulling new cable.

Invest in good cable, as it will help prevent communication problems. Case in point: One of the computers on my network wouldn’t communicate beyond basic pings, even though I had a link light. Dropping the connection speed showed I had a bad patch cable in there. Good cable will eliminate many causes of network errors.

9

Hmmm, with all my suppliers, including CompUSA, I can get WHITE, yes WHITE Cat 5 cabling…ask for it if your store doesn’t carry it.

In my travels I can get:

Green, blue, red, yellow, white, grey and beige…never seen purple or chartreuse (sp) but not sure that there is much of a demand for the last two.

This from a semi-retired network consultant.

:rolleyes: becuase the OP was a little bit of a wiener in his OP and responses.

Alls ya gots to do is friggin ask, that’s it…

10

I wouldn’t say it is not able, just not recomended as I have used it in a pinch (and later replaced it w/ proper cable)

11

I am totally in tune with your gripe blade. No white? It’s whack!! A few months I was looking for a 100 foot white cat 5 cable to match my crib so I went to Radio Shack and they tried to sell me four 25 foot beige cables and a pair of couplers. How Bogus!!! I told the clueless sales clerk to cram the cables up his ass and put a battery card up there for good measure. I tried Circuit City but all they had were 25 foot cables and no white. The salesperson said most people didn’t care about color! I was so pissed I got into his grill and told him “I do! You ass munching jerkoff! I need white! WHITE ! WHITE!” I can’t go back there now but it was worth it.

So anyway, here is where I got hooked up. They’ve got the goods and they won’t try to do-respect you with beige or gray.
http://www.necxdirect.com/hai/prod_page.html?key=0000109168&nonce=guest

CAT5 50FT RJ-45 WHITE PATCH CABLE

Price: $12.95
Shipping: FREE
on domestic UPS Ground orders $399.00 and over
In Stock: yes

The A3L791-50 is a 10Base-T, 50-Foot, Category 5, Twisted Pair Patch Cable in standard WHITE color. All of Belkin’s 10Base-T products comply with IEEE 802.3 specifications.

Package Includes:

  • One A3L791-50 White Cable

Catalog Number
0000109168
Manufacturers Part Number
A3L791-5Ø-WHT