Wi-Fi sucks. Well, it sucks if your router is lurking in a subterranean realm of your apartment and your gaming rig is located aboveground with an iron staircase in between the two and you don’t want to run 100m of cable or wire the apartment with ethernet because you don’t own the building. More »
Sure, it doesn’t have the raw sex appeal of, say, a shiny new tablet, but networking cable has feelings too. Or would, it if it wasn’t just handy cable. You might have to be quick (or call your local store), but OfficeWorks is flogging off 15m CAT5 cables for the low, low price of $3.79. And at least as I’m writing this, they’re in stock. [Officeworks via OzBargain]
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