Retractable Cords
Sep 4, 2003 | 6:51 pm
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Retractable Cords
I'm traveling more and more these days, and it's just clunky to drag around an actual phone cord and a patch cable with me wherever I go. I've got enough cords with my laptop's AC power adapter, iPod AC, earphones, etc.
Any suggestions for quality retractable phone cords/patch cables? It just kills me that I'll probably have to pay more for shipping than for the actual product itself.
Any suggestions for quality retractable phone cords/patch cables? It just kills me that I'll probably have to pay more for shipping than for the actual product itself.
Sep 4, 2003 | 7:22 pm
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Cant help you with the patch-cord but you can get a 6' phone cord with a push-button winder (entire unit about 1" x 2" x 0.25") for about $8 or $10 at Brookstone, bought two at ORD a few weeks ago.
mike
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mike
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Sep 4, 2003 | 8:37 pm
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Phone cords - You don't need a high quality one since you will probably lose it or leave it in the hotel all the time. Most any dollar store will probably have them.
Network Cable - There are some really good mini cables out there, I forget who had them (Xircom perhaps?) but they were incredibly thin.
Do a search on froogle.google.com for retractable ethernet cable
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...Froogle+Search
and a few will come up for as low as under $10 (J and R Music World) , phone ones under $5
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Network Cable - There are some really good mini cables out there, I forget who had them (Xircom perhaps?) but they were incredibly thin.
Do a search on froogle.google.com for retractable ethernet cable
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=...Froogle+Search
and a few will come up for as low as under $10 (J and R Music World) , phone ones under $5
[This message has been edited by cordelli (edited 09-04-2003).]
Sep 4, 2003 | 8:43 pm
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It's been my experience that retractable phone cords (RJ11) work fine.
However, my experience with retractable network cables (RJ45) is different. These are not 'shielded' and I have had a failure rate of ~50% using them.
However, my experience with retractable network cables (RJ45) is different. These are not 'shielded' and I have had a failure rate of ~50% using them.