What is meant by kinking the cable. I saw at the first thing shared was not to kink the cable. Can somebody explain what is kinking and why should not one do it. If somebody has any images to go with it, much better as well.
The second bit about "avoid tight or sharp bends; for UTP the bend radius should be at least 1"." . Can somebody explain to me what is this bend radius as well.
Thank you for your patience.
Update :- I did get some part of the answer just after I wrote. Bend radius is this :-
Kinking also seems to be somehow damaging the cable but how does that damage happens is not shared/explained.
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A kink is a twist or a bend. kink
A kink in a cable may change slightly the impedance of the cable but I don't think this would be a very big problem with the level of electricity we have in an ethernet cable. This would be a more a problem for bigger cables like submarine cables for example.
The main problem of a kink is that with time it can damage the cable like the picture below .
A severe enough bend or kink could break the wire(s) inside (which is obviously bad). Can also happen from being bent repeatedly in the same spot.
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