After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn’t know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It’s a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.
Orange white, orange
Green white, blue
Blue white, green
Brown white, brown
Learned it 20 years ago, never used it. how did I do?
You pass! I’ve done several thousands of these over the past decade.
yeah I did this almost 30 years ago and could recite it from scratch, haven’t made a cable since hs
Now do the A spec.
I have not cared about or terminated A-spec after network cards gained auto MDI/MDIX about 20 years ago.
I forget the order 5 times in the middle of crimping each side, so you’re doing better than me.
Ewwww orange first? Why are you making a crossover cable backwards for?
I thought T568B at each end was standard practice these days
Depends where in the world you are.
We use A in Australia and from what I have seen in western Europe A is also used more.