Once upon a time, Wayne E Bouchard <web@typo.org> said:
And that's the main reason I never order cables with boots on them. They're mostly just unnecessary headaches. (BTW, you forgot to mention them slipping loose and just pulling away from the connector or the tab slipping out from under the rubber and making the cable all the more difficult to remove.)
I have seen one good use for boots. Somebody had a cable (that was in a position that made it difficult to replace or re-crimp) that had a RJ45 with a bad tab. It wasn't broken off, but it wouldn't really latch into the jack. So, they pulled the boot back slightly and slipped the "bump" of the boot _under_ the tab, and that held it up and the cable stayed in. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.