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Cheap enough but you get what you pay for. The cable is too thin and caused ghosting on my monitor!

Ghosting was unbearable on my 17" monitor when plugged into this extension. Did a little research and found the product information for this F2N025-06 cable on the Belkin Website. The last bullet item states: "NOTE: Will only work on monitors smaller than 17 inches."

Sure wish I had seen this information on the Belkin site before I wasted my time and money.

Hey - my first review! Go me. Anyway, I bought this cable for about $10 at Staples today, after blowing off one at Radio Shack for $25. This was to extend the reach of a new 19" Dell LCD (analog). I get horrible ghosting and some twitchy text. I tested the monitor (with a normal cable) on my laptop, and it looks great - I tested it again on the laptop with this extension cable in between, and the ghosting came back. I guess you get what you pay for - the Radio Shack one (I forget the brand, but it wasn't the house brand - maybe 3M?) was super thick. I think I'll just order a high-quality 10' male-male cable with the shielding the other poster referred to. Sorry Belkin, this one's a dud.

Certainly does the job - they're not as durable as I might like, but if you're assembling a server rack or otherwise in need of a number of monitor extension cables, you could do worse than this. I bought five and I'm happy with them - you're not paying for the Monster Cable kind of durability. I haven't seen any ghosting or other problems, even in a fairly crowded server rack, although I can understand why the other reviewer would find that to be a problem!

This product produces horrible ghosting - why they would make it, I do not know. A total waste of money, unconscionable.