Recite the Ode after me:
Orange-stripe Orange, Green-Stripe Blue,
Blue-Stripe Green, Brown-Stripe Brown

"Doctor, are you sure this will work!?"

"HAHA, I have NO IDEA!"

I assume he has since disappeared under mysterious circumstances, at the same time as all of his coworkers were somewhere else on a walk together (or so they swear)

That guy must get around because I have seen far too many cables like that in important racks.

You've apparently never pulled hundreds of feet of ethernet cable from racks or under raised datacenter floors. Without these, you're replacing that connector once it pops loose from the tangle without a tab

Some dumber manufacturers put the reset button right above a port, such that the clip cover can bump it on insertion.

As some mentioned, Cisco. 10 years ago I had to work with one of it's partners, and this was a massive deal.

Spent months just making sure everywhere it was stated they had that issue.

Great, now I'm going to call these RJ45 foreskins.

This is the way.

And ideally, never pull out.

If you cut the bottom of the hood halfway, it protects the tab but still squishes to disconnect. I've lost too many tabs to the full circumcision.

yeah same. I can count on one hand the number of times I've ripped lock tabs off, meanwhile the number of times the stiff protective boot makes it impossible to unclip when it is cold or more than 5yo is easily in the thousands.

Also reterminating a plug with a broken lock tab takes like 5 minutes to cut and crimp.. Or be a real chad and throw a strip of duct tape to hold it in and say fuckit.

There’s a secret third option I didn’t include

Yes! I freaking hate boots and I’ve never really yanked a cable from the end where it would get stuck on something and I’ve been under a lot of desks and in telco closets/data centers.

than*

How is it hard to get right?

We're running that cable direct into the case and soldering the connectors, just for you. We'll decide when you can disconnect.

It’s there so the little plastic tab that keeps the Ethernet cable plugged in doesn’t break easily.

Because honestly, those little plastic tabs are a shit design for keeping something important plugged in.