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Originally Posted by Peter Johnson
Why order something custom when standard long Ethernet cables are so inexpensive? E.g. you can buy a 100 foot Cat5e Ethernet cable from Amazon for $12.99 with free Prime shipping. It's inexpensive enough that you can buy a couple extras for what a custom cable probably costs.
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This is probably the best option, it is not a critical application. If you find that the tether no longer works, you can just change it out for another.
Our Sponsor School, replaced their entire school network with CAT6, so we got about 50kg of CAT5/5E ethernet cables. We donated the long ones to teams at the Australia Regional who did not have any cables. We also removed the inner wire cores from some, while they are too fragile for use in some applications, they are good for making jumpers on circuit boards among a few other uses.
We had no problems with using a long solid core ethernet cable as a tether, but I would have a spare or two on hand.