Monster Cable Ultra-High-Speed RJ11 Internet Phone Cable (10 feet, yellow)

by Monster

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 120 x 1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003CWBZ
• Item model number: JI PJMO HPY-10
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1973

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Computing on the go is hard enough without having to fight with your telephone modem connection: Tangled wires, broken tabs on that little RJ-11 telephone connector, not to mention trying to dig out that connector from a hotel telephone while you're trying get to your first meeting or catch your flight.

Introducing Monster Internet, the cable that makes Internet travel a whole lot easier. Our award winning Internet phone cable is flexible and easy to travel with. It's made with Monster Cable's DuraFlex jacket which is not only durable but very flexible so you can quickly coil and pack your Monster Internet cable in your laptop case. It has an extended tab so you won't have to fight with it when you want to disconnect. The Tab is heavy duty and there's a nifty cover over it so it won't accidentally snag and break.

At Monster, our traveling sales people prefer an extra-short 5 foot black Monster Internet for plugging into airport or hotel phones with dataports. Less cable means it quicker to plug in and quicker to go. They also pack in their luggage an extra-long 25 foot yellow Monster Internet so when they get to their hotel rooms they can work where they want to, not where the phone jack is. The yellow keeps them from tripping over the cable and damaging their laptops. Sorry, no glow-in-dark, yet.

Monster Internet does come in 5, 10, 25 foot lengths and in 5 different Monsterous colors: Corporate BLUE, Sophisticated BLACK, Dare-to-be-different YELLOW, Passionate RED, Resistant-to-change WHITE.

Some may say a cable is just a cable. If you're a traveling laptop power user, we know everything you carry is carefully chosen whether it's the laptop or the bag it goes in. We're confident you'll appreciate the thought and effort we Monsters have put in to designing the ultimate travel internet phone cable, Monster Internet.

Product Description

Monster Cable JI PJMO HPY-10 Ultra-High Speed Internet Cable (DataSpeed® 100) Using RJ11 Connection 10 ft. length Yellow

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Customer Reviews

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An absurd extension of the expensive-stereo-cable phenomenon, December 17, 1999

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Phaedrus (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Monster Cable Ultra-High-Speed RJ11 Internet Phone Cable (10 feet, yellow) (Personal Computers)

Monster Cable is best known for its high-end stereo and video cables, with equally high-end prices. There are those who say that these expensive cables can make all the difference to a high-end audio/video system; there are others who say that they make no difference whatsoever.

But when it comes to telephone cable, there is simply no room for that sort of debate. Spending $20 for a ten-foot length of telephone cable is simply ludicrous, and Monster Cable loses a great deal of credibility in my eyes for even offering the product.

The telephone signal going to your modem has in all likelihood travelled down thousands of feet of cables, and a maze of telephone company switching equipment, before it reaches that jack in your wall. That journey has caused signal loss and distortion. Unless your current modem cable is physically damaged in some way, there is simply no way that those ten feet of modem cable will make a significant difference.

And if you're still inclined to disagree, consider this: What about the cable running through your house's walls, connecting the phone company's junction box to your wall jack? It's almost certainly not made out of any special high-tech materials; it's probably whatever brand the contractor could find on sale when he or she wired your house. And it's almost certainly much longer than your modem cable, meaning that its capability to cause distortion and signal loss is much greater. If you're not going to rip that cable out of your wall--and you wouldn't, because that would be foolish and silly--then why on Earth would you spend so much money on the last ten feet of cable that happens to stick outside the wall?

If the quality of your phone connections is bad, then you may need a better modem; or you may need to call the phone company in to inspect the lines and make any needed repairs. But replacing a working modem cable with a SuperCable simply isn't going to make a difference.

If you do need a new phone cable, then go down to your local Target or similar store, and buy a basic cable there; use the money you'll save for high-end stereo cables if you feel so inclined, since there's at least a chance that money spent there will actually have an impact.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for frequent travel, August 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Monster Cable Ultra-High-Speed RJ11 Internet Phone Cable (10 feet, yellow) (Personal Computers)

Although this is a pricey cable, its construction and materials are of very high quality. The cable jacket is thick, flexible rubber and there are rubber anti-snag strain-relief boots. This is a good item to travel with since it's very supple and won't kink, in addition to being tough and able to stand the abuse of frequent travel.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is madness!, December 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Monster Cable Ultra-High-Speed RJ11 Internet Phone Cable (10 feet, yellow) (Personal Computers)

While it's true that the noise level of a phone line can adversely affect the data rate you get over a modem, here are a few things to bear in mind:

1) The low-quality part of the line is probably not in your house! It's somewhere between you and your CO (outside).

2) You won't get garbled text or munged data from line noise on your phone line. The modem is error-correcting, and the data will be retransmitted. Line noise will cost you speed, not quality (as the manufacturer's review suggests).

3) A reiteration of point (1): a line is only as good as its weakest link. Putting gold contacts on the clean part of the line won't help.

But hey, they come in swank designer colors.