[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

Brian Henning brian at strutmasters.com
Tue Oct 5 12:40:13 EDT 2004


> One thing I can tell you is that the non-working cable has only 4
conductors
> crimped. For long cables, should all 8 be crimped?

As I understand it, 10-base-T needs 4 conductors (two signal, two ground)
and 100-base-T requires all 8 (four signal, four ground).

Someone correct me if I'm wrong!

Cheers,
~Brian





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