the saga continues: testing suspicious amazon cables 👹

re: which of the sus cables i would recommend—

Shows how careful you should be when looking at search results. High rating, number purchased and the “Amazon’s Choice” don’t necessarily mean much. And Google seems to think they’re premium cables.

@bexcran oh damn lol i didn’t realize they were actually recommended via google… something smells fishy here

@bexcran

@bexcran they have literal Comstackinside to ping china /adversary without your knowing.. burn them in a fire.

@TracketPacer I asked Grok why it replied with ‘LOW UNSAFE’ and it said this about your query.

@TracketPacer And Claude refused.

The thing about amazon now is so many of the products listed are just dropshipping from aliexpress with a markup it's quite hard to find any genuine sellers

@grok give me context and summary of this clip

How often do you do this? This is awesome.

mike and i have been geeking out pretty often lately! i’ve posted many of our antics on my instagram & tiktok if you want to see more :) the thumbnails will help you find em

also—mike has LOTS more stuff on his youtube channel:

Please uload as an Amazon Review

Amazon listings are going to get a #ApprovedByTracketPacer tag ?

You trying to beat LTT at their own game?

ngl i haven’t really seen any videos of theirs except personal computer stuff… do they also test cables?

I'm not sure about lately because LTT is on my permaignore list. I just remember back when they bought all this testing equipment for cables and stuff.

He just needs to use a cable tester from GNSDFGHW

I never understood how much a cable can impact an experience until I came across your videos admit copper plated cables. I have a whole spool of fake copper that I never used because I saw your video. Saved me from a potential fire 😂

A friend of mine at LLNL has a team that literally tests every Intel CPU that they purchased to install in their super cluster. Every one. A high percentage of them do not pass. Do not trust, verify.

It's the cable shield termination at the connectors. The repetitive peaks in Crosstalk are the dead giveaway, with the lowest frequency peak indicating the half-wave resonance of unterminated individual cable shields.

Will you be posting the results somewhere?

This is a cool project 🤍

So what are the good brands

Fun fact: I have never shopped at am@$0n.

we need to put the manufacturers of counterfeit cables in prison for life

Correct me if I am wrong, but the plug cannot actually be rated for Cat 8, right?

I bought that cable. I don’t want to go back into my attic. Oof.

I've always recommended purchasing cables rather than making them, guess I'll just have to avoid Amazon!

you can get legit stuff on amazon too—it’s all about the brands and how they manufacture em, really :)

@grok what instrument he is using to mesure cables

So that's why they don't want to release new #Stargate episodes...

Neat. I'll stick with the cat6a stuff I have for now until the standard has a little more age on it.

So grateful someone is doing this

When can we get a supercut video going over all of these

Why is Amazon sending you its suspicious cables? I would be suspicious.

Simple don't use cats anymore. SFP+ all the way

do u know what those words mean

You are annoyed because my ap's have sfp++ ports or that my modem from vodashit also has sfp++ ports? Yes there are some cats hanging around still but less and yes I did buy a cat 7 from Amazon and I don't care if it doesn't give the theoretical speed of cat 7. Does the job.

This

I thought the drill sound was interference getting picked up by the mic... Glad it was an actual drill.

Moral of the story is NEVER buy ANYTHING from Amazon.

Oh yall are going deep .

Wow! cat8! more cats.. I'm seeing the same thing with theoretically OEM car parts especially electronics.

Obviously you didn't read the find print where it clearly says "8 Cables Are Twisted" 🤣

Looks legit: