The RG-6 is a popular cable used in many cable TV and satellite applications. Many different subtypes of RG-6 exist, such as for underground burial or overhead lines. For a typical RG-6, the nominal weight is listed at .048 pounds per foot. One-hundred feet would weigh 4.8 pounds. The impedance is 75 ohms. Ohms is a unit of resistance in the copper wire. One ohm is one volt divided by one ampere. The maximum voltage that the cable can handle is 300 volts.
This is a thin cable designed for computer networks and other data carrying applications. It is composed of 23-gauge wire in twisted pairs. Twenty-three gauge is the wire size, each wire being about the thickness of large paper clip wire. All the cables in the 10 GX series can transmit data to 650 Megahertz. Each wire's internal resistance is 7.4 ohms for 100 meters or about 110 yards. The minimum radius it can bend without kinking is 1.25 inches. Its weight is 40 pounds per 1,000 feet.
The DataTwist 1200 Cable is designed specifically for high-speed computer networks. This series of cable has four pairs of 24-gauge insulated copper wire inside a common outside insulator. Therefore, a total of eight wires are inside an outer sheath. Twenty-four gauge is about the thickness of a sewing needle. The cable can support data transfer of up to 24 gigabytes per second. This is sufficiently fast enough to support many LANs, or Local Area Networks. The cable weighs 20 pounds for every thousand feet.