so how come this never makes a connection "drop"...

[Turbonium]

Your standard ethernet connection has a bit of give to it where the cable connects to the port. How come it doesn't cause any connection issues? And how come you can literally move the connector in and out slightly and wiggle it and nothing bad happens?

 

[ch33zw1z]

It will, in time.

 

[RLGL]

Your standard ethernet connection has a bit of give to it where the cable connects to the port. How come it doesn't cause any connection issues? And how come you can literally move the connector in and out slightly and wiggle it and nothing bad happens?

Trust me, it does

 

[Mushkins]

It does all the time. Try using a patch cable with the little pressure clip broken off, it's frustrating enough to just toss the cable and replace it.

 

[mammador]

It does all the time. Try using a patch cable with the little pressure clip broken off, it's frustrating enough to just toss the cable and replace it.

This.

Generally with the clip there are no issues. If the clip gets broken off, then sometimes the cable can slip out.

 

[imagoon]

The mod end has small slots that the spring loaded contacts in the keystone / NIC slide in to. As long as the clip is present, this will generally make a good connection. Depending on what is moving though you may break the copper in the wall.

 

[drebo]

The physical properties of the jack are such that contact between the pins on the cable head and the terminals in the jack are made almost immediately after inserting the cable head into the jack. They're engineered in such a way that they keep constant pressure against the jack, so that even if it moves up/down/left/right/in/out a little bit, the terminals and pins still connect.

Look inside one sometime and see how the 8 bits of copper are directed up at an angle toward the back of the jack.

Yes, if you wiggle it too far out you'll loose connection, but a couple millimeters here or there won't do anything.

 

[serpretetsky]

I'm assuming you are referring to how the ethernet cable plugged into the actual port has a few millimeters of clearance back and forth even though it's clipped in.

I agree with drebo here

The physical properties of the jack are such that contact between the pins on the cable head and the terminals in the jack are made almost immediately after inserting the cable head into the jack. They're engineered in such a way that they keep constant pressure against the jack, so that even if it moves up/down/left/right/in/out a little bit, the terminals and pins still connect.

Look inside one sometime and see how the 8 bits of copper are directed up at an angle toward the back of the jack.

Yes, if you wiggle it too far out you'll loose connection, but a couple millimeters here or there won't do anything.

In other words, if you've ever plugged in a pci card you will have noticed the connections are oriented in such a way that they don't require the card to be all the way.

The force of the connections is perpinducilar to the movement of the connection, and therefor doesn't depend on how far in the connection is made.

This is the same thing with the ethernet cable