On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 11:16:15AM +1300, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> * Misjudged the colour-coding (no, I'm not colourblind)
> I looked at a plug on a premade cable and saw:
> White, Orange, White, Blue, White, Green, White, Brown
> and assumed:
> Wh/Or, Orange, Wh/Bl, Blue, Wh/Gr, Green, Wh/Br, Brown
The scary thing? Is that what you assumed, actually works where values of
'work' extend no further than 10MBit, with a distance of no more than a few
metres. I had precisely *one* cable wired like that, with a length of about
3 metres, which worked fine, on a 10MBit hub.
On the other hand, I have some crappy old 4-core telephone cable, (not
twisted) which works up to about 15-20 metres at 10MBit.
Needless to say, I'm slowly transistioning to CAT5 everywhere.
Mike.
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Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184
yip yip yip yip yip yip yap yap yip *BANG* NO TERRIER
