dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Exactly, yeah. I learned professional touch typing at 16 so to me the backlight wins.

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Post #213
newpain01

newpain01

Similar here. I am using the Leopold FC 660M (Cherry MX Brown switches).

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Post #214
newpain01

newpain01

Off topic, which model/brand of monitors are those?

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Post #215
Ted

Ted

My monitors were recently replaced at work and they rotate, so I’m going to give portrait mode a whirl. :rocket:

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Post #216
carlosarli

carlosarli

They are dell ultrasharp I’ll find the model out and post it. I quite like them although not perfect I got them on a good deal :slight_smile:

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Post #217
michallepicki

michallepicki

How is this difficul to find? Isn’t that just a regular telephone cable?

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Post #218
Nicd

Nicd

Regular phone cable is not crossover. I had to make my own by cutting the cable in the middle and soldering the wires crossed.

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Post #219
hubertlepicki

hubertlepicki

But you could buy a telephone cable, pair of RJ-11 connectors and cross over the cable when mounting a connector in similar fashion to doing crossover with UTP cable / RJ-45 connectors.

Although, I don’t find that necessary anymore with ethernet as I think pretty much everything nowadays detects if a cable is twisted or untwisted and just straight cable works for most bases.

The only problem I can see is that you usually buy the JR-11/RJ-45 connectors in packets of 100, but it costs like 4 EUR for the packet in my local electronic shop. Still, it’s probably better solution than soldering in the middle of cable, from my experience these things usually don’t last (but I do suck at soldering).

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Post #220
Nicd

Nicd

RJ11 uses 6P, 4P4C is RJ9. And I realise I could buy those connectors and some wire but then I’d have to buy a new crimping tool as well (mine only has 8P and 6P). This was a much cheaper option and with heat shrink tubing it should be durable enough. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Post #221
hubertlepicki

hubertlepicki

Oh you are right! I only now noticed it’s not the standard telephone socket. My tool doesn’t support it either.

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Post #222