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Steve, A straight through cable as you have been building will work just fine for a short distance. That distance depends on all sort of things such as how the wire is run, how close it is to other wires, and a whole buch of other electromagnetic gobbly gook. The twisting of the pairs is done to provide a "cleaner" signal through the patch cable. Using the standard twist will provide a longer capability with the same cable. If you have a chance give it a try get 100' of cat5 and put on the ends straight through as you have been doing and then try it. If it don't work, try the twist method, you should see the difference right away. Ron On Friday 18 April 2003 03:32 pm, fsanta wrote:
On Friday 18 April 2003 20:16, Matt wrote:
On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 12:04, fsanta wrote:
I've always done this at *both* ends of a straight through cable:
pin1 blue stripe pin2 blue pin3 orange stripe pin4 orange pin5 green stripe pin6 green pin7 brown stripe pin8 brown
Mate of mine says it's all wrong. Google confuses me still further. Is there anything wrong with my wiring? Thanks, Steve.
Here is a more "official" source:
http://yoda.uvi.edu/InfoTech/rj45.htm
I've known patch cables to work as long as both ends of the cable match.
Matt
Hi and thanks. So it seems that mine is totally wrong and shouldn't work. So why does it? Or maybe it's not working as fast as it should be? Steve.