Actually this is how it is suppose to be done.
With the hook underneath and the cable pointing away from you.
1 Orange Str.
2 Orange
3 Green Str.
4 Blue
5 Blue Str.
6 Green
7 Brown Str.
8 Brown.
Regards,
Gavin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, alann wrote:
> Ramon Gandia wrote:
> >
> > Aaron W. wrote:
>
> > Pairs are usually a color, and the second wire is white with
> > trace of the color. As in blue and blue/white. It is easy
> > to figure out which wires are the pair. However, in the RJ-45
> > connector, the pairs are NOT 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8. They are in some
> > different order which I do not have handy. For this reason you
> > should look at an ethernet connector and make sure you maintain
> > the same color combination. I suppose you could swap the PAIR
> > colors, but the wire pairs have to be kept as wire pairs even if
> > their particular pair color does not matter.
> >
> I have seen various ways of doing this but I will pass on the way I wire
> them.
>
> First, I'm a TV broadcast engineer. Our building is very old, and was
> built in 1961 with
> no future of anything we face now, LAN/WAN, HDTV etc. ( Hence, reason
> why we are constructing a new
> facility ). Right next to us is a mall, and inside the premisis is a
> 5KW AM radio station.
> AM at 960Khz gets into everything.
>
> I have wired all the schems I have seen and seems like only one works.
> ( We have about 100 workstations and other odd TV things ).
> Here is how I do it, and the LAN is 10MBps but our on air graphics
> system is 100VG ( HP ).
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> WH/BR WH/OR WH/GN BLUE WH/BL GREEN ORN BRN
>
>
> ( TAB DOWN, IMAGINE PINS -- FRONT OF RJ45 TO TOP OF SCREEN ).
>
> Might not be right, but works in our crazy scheme.
>
> BTW, some lame*$$ printer guys installing a new mojo color laser printer
> laughed at me.
> I told them, OK, try your cable. Guess what, didn't work.
> My cable, the one they said couldn't worked, does.
>
> My 2 cents on this.
> Alan
>
>
>
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