Cable Types

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Although i'm remembering some, anyone got any good tips similar to Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away for OSI, for remebering cable types, distances etc.. at the moment i'm just going over and over them trying to drum them into my heaD!

 

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Yeah, I understand what you mean, but being that I am studying N+ as well, I have not come across any anacronyms that would be helpful. I am very doubtful that one exists. If you happen to come across one let me know. By the way, have you got subnetting down?

 

This may or may not help as I am doing A+.

To remember IRQs I created a power point slide show which shows each one etc, maybe you could do one with a picture of each cable, that might work.

 

Well what I've done is created my own acronyms.... example

That
Fool

T - 10BaseT
F - 10BaseFL

That
Fool

T - 100BaseTX
F - 100BaseFX

The
Coolman
Saw
Lucy

T - 1000BaseTX
C - 1000BaseCX
S - 1000BaseSX
L - 1000BaseLX

Soccer
League
Extravaganza

S - 1000GBaseSR
L - 1000GBaseLR
E - 1000GbaseER

I found remembering all the 10Basex / 100Basex / 1000Basex / 10Gbasex was the hardest bit as they all sound and look so similar... use the acronyms build a table in your head and then it's easy to remember all the specifications.

 

great stuff man thanks!!!

 

I remembered by using this for the OSI Model.
Physical - Data Link - Network - Transport - Session - Presentation - Application
Please - Do - Not - Try - Shagging - Paula - Abdul

Well it worked for me!

 

a lot of the older standards had it built into the name

10Base5 was 500 meters
10base2 was 200 meters (Actually 185 rounded up)
10Broad36 was 3600 meters

it tended to get a bit easier in the modern arena, although it's got confusing again in recent years with 10Gig Ethernet and the plethora of PHY standards that can be used with 1G and 10G networks

Cat5 is generally 100 meter limit per segment, that doesn't change for Cat6 or Cat 4

Multi mode Fiber is short haul stuff, usually under 1000m
Single mode Fiber is long haul, KM usually

Fiber standards for ethernet are
SX
LX
ZX

you could sum this up as Short, Long, Zoom (or something to that effect)
SX is the shortest, Multi mode fibre, < 300m usually depending on equipment
LX is >500m again dependent on equipment
ZX is like, close to 100km depending on equipment

Edit: in regards to OSI, I learnt it the opposite way
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