die drop test
we're gonna do a can it tow oh god good
luck everybody normally reviewing a cable
is a hard pass for me but when i get an email that says hey you want to check
out an indestructible tactical cable well now you got my attention don't you
i didn't think today was going to include any of this stuff and yet
it did meet the elite core athena Ethernet cable a
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this is your run-of-the-mill cat5 or cat6 network cable
and this is elitecore's super cat
tactical cable what in the world makes a cable tactical
is it for jacking into the mainframe during your
covert ops or using it while taking enemy fire i mean
is it even better than this there's only one way for us to find out my script
just says vamp as you unbox so let's go ahead and
do this thing shall we wow the quality of this printing is terrible lifetime
guarantee though unconditional you take great pride in your computer and for
good reason this is some a plus marketing wank right here every single
inch of it oozes powerful perfection yet we're willing to bet that if you
peeked around the back it's still connected with a flimsy Ethernet cable
oh for crying out loud essentially a string and tin cans that's what they
they said this is essentially a string and tin can enter the athena elite
dripping with excellence they say built to not only handle modern signal needs
but to last an eternity and look good along the way look at this locking
connector like one of the first things to fail on any Ethernet cable is
obviously that little clip that keeps it into the socket one wrong look at this
thing and paying off it pops you'll never see it again don't bother trying
to super glue it back on by the way that doesn't work so elite core
this is an interesting strat so first they've got this like cover around it so
it can't accidentally pop off and then they've got a built-in button so you can
press it then they've got like a strain relief here and
the sleeving on this thing is freaking ridiculous oh wow look at that
it's like got memory like sleeving oh well that's pretty cool
when you're doing like uh like an Ethernet wall or like a kind of
trickier run how's your kinkage resistance though
okay not bad and it gets even more
interesting this is called the converted
shell connector and it accepts this kind of
like baton looking thing so you can see the whole Ethernet connector is now like
recessed in this thing so in order to use this you're actually going to have
to have special wall plates that elite core makes
that it plugs into just like an xlr connector like on a on like professional
audio there you go you have to push this thing to release it
so like theoretically that's real hard to get
out by accident of course so far we're just taking elite core's word for it
that these things are tough you know you can run over it you can hang weights
from it blah blah blah i want to see for myself so
for the next few minutes we are going to be beating the absolute
crap out of this cable and seeing if it still works
and we get to look good doing it lttstore.com oh i mean we could do a
quick does it come out on its own by accident test
okay well that didn't come out on its own we're transferring ladies and
gentlemen you know what i'm going to start with something a little less heavy
how about just like this
is ill doors bane sorry i just watched the lord of the
rings 4k we actually flattened it a little bit
of course what we don't know is if that would actually break a regular cable
still transferring somehow i wouldn't really trust it though eleven twelve
oh it's dead that's what a dead Ethernet cable looks like so let's give it
another 20.
okay elite core okay
can you tell how much bladder is on camera next test
regular Ethernet cable versus accidental scissors
see you later oh it's dead now i i'm
hoping to actually be able to break it here
i gotta choke up make sure you get that full snipping power
oh did i get it i did get it i guess now we can find out
what it's made of first thing we've got is this is 23 awg
cat6 so yes rated for 10 gig but not over full
distance you need cat six a for that each of the individual twisted pairs is
shielded well that explains the kind of like the memory
do you think it's just a shield yeah it has to be because there's nothing else
in here uh colin and i were discussing whether we thought it was going to be
stranded or solid core i can't tell yet
what's your final bet now i'm gonna i'm gonna strip it back
well it's gotta be stranded for a patch cable take industrial
use i mean it's going to be dragging tanks in and out of the truck 100 times
i'm going to say solid just to be contrary
i win it's solid core no way it's solid core okay well that would explain some
of the memory as well then and probably what makes it so that it doesn't break
is like i said the fact that it has such thick shielding and then sheathing on it
just because one of our cables is dead doesn't mean our test is over we
pre-tested this blue cable and we've devised a series of torture tests we're
gonna put it through before going back in and testing it again starting with
the classic can you run over it with a pickup truck
my lovely assistant colin will well he'll assist
okay you know what that's probably enough of that as expected that did
nothing at all another classic we're gonna do a can it toe oh god oh god oh
god i mean it's doing it
i don't know how high my confidence level is right now okay colin break
matthias break oh god
colin waited a second there oh i gotta i gotta play my
favorite song
oh this poor thing i don't think it lived the sleeving has suffered a little
bit let's go test it now wait
no it still works you gotta be kidding me
all right let's go back and kill it for real this time
soft wheels that's easy but these are hard wheels this forklift
weighs about three thousand pounds good luck everybody
all right thanks matthias oh man that didn't even do anything flattened it a
little die
drop test
test time you ready try again try again did we kill it oh my god we
didn't we didn't it's it works
thought we got it that time okay then marketing about the shame of connecting
your gaming rig with a flimsy cable you found in a drawer somewhere
clearly these are made for a different purpose than your run-of-the-mill router
to pc connection where the result is like mission critical like if you're
setting up an audio system for a touring musician or rapidly deploying emergency
infrastructure this is the kind of cable that you spend the extra on when you
need to be able to trust that it will work even when it's abused and that
is what tactical means according to what we've seen in
the real world this will stand the test of time whether you're a traveling show
that moves production to production or whether you just you know
run over your cables with your chair all the time or something like that but what
is the cost i actually don't know so this is the
reveal oh really
42 us dollars per cable you know what
that's bad but it's not
that bad like after working with pro-grade cameras and filming equipment
and that kind of stuff for so long it doesn't surprise me i mean whether
it's an xlr cable or like a weird proprietary usb adapter for the a7 or
this is a classic this is the cable that goes between a red camera and the
monitor that is proprietary to red excuse me we break a lot of those
because um the screen really is not great these are 150 a pop i know which
is a lot of money huh actually i'm kind of still
processing that one but it's
it's kind of the cost of doing business at a certain point and it will pay for
itself every time you have a completed production that doesn't require a
reshoot or where the editor doesn't find a proper hiss in the audio uh these
wireless microphone packs for example are four thousand dollars a pair i mean
you can get a wireless lav kit for a tenth of that but it's not mission
critical grade so that's why there's this whole world out there of connectors
and industrial cables that are designed to far outperform what you would find
kicking around your house one of the big manufacturers in the connector space is
neutrik and they actually make many of the connectors that elite core uses in
their products they're kind of the de facto standard when it comes to rigging
gear like this this is actually a power bar that elite core makes that is a
hundred and sixty seven dollars for just four outlets but it's got this locking
connector and if you open it up i mean the cable management man it's like you
could throw this thing around the back of a truck drive it across country and
you would still expect it to freaking work now that's not to say that the
performance of these cables is any better whether it's the Ethernet or
power or whatever else it's just it's just basically
tin cans and string at the end of the day but when it comes to locking retention
mechanisms water tightness and durability well
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