DEC BC09J cable

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Thu Feb 28 14:55:58 2002

On Feb 28, 14:48, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

> Do you mean for the outside sleeve, or the individual wires in the
cable?
> For the outside, there is no real standard color that I'm aware of,
although
> there is a standard ordering for the wires when crimping (I think it goes
> orange, green, brown, blue (solid followed by white and color) but don't
> quote me on that---it's been awhile since I've crimped CAT5 network
cables).

Not quite. It's white-with-colour then plain colour (or colour with a thin
white stripe or rings), and the common order in Europe is T568B (aka 258A):

white/orange pin 1
orange
white/green
blue
white/blue
green
white/brown
brown pin 8

I believe the common order in the States is to swap orange and green pairs,
which is T568A. If you use one scheme at one end and the other scheme at
the opposite end, you have a standard Ethernet crossover cable. ie, pins 1
and 2 are swapped with pins 3 and 6 but pins 4+5 and 7+8 are
straight-through.

> But for a regular CAT5 cable, as long as you use the same order for each
> end, it'll work fine.

Almost. You need to keep the pairs as pairs, on pins 1/2, 3/6, 4/5, and
7/8.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Thu Feb 28 2002 - 14:55:58 GMT

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