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How Do You Quickly Narrow Down an RJ45 Connector Choice?

I've been using a 5-question decision flow for RJ45 selection:

  1. Indoor/outdoor/vibration? → Sealed or locking?
  2. PoE required? → Up to 90W?
  3. 100M / 1G / 10G / SPE?
  4. Integrated or discrete magnetics?
  5. PCB-mount / panel / field-installable?

Answering these five questions usually gets me to the right connector type in under 5 minutes.

What's your go-to method for narrowing down Ethernet connector options?

Full decision matrix: https://voohuelectronic-ux.github.io/voohu-rj45-guide/resources/rj45-decision-matrix.html

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