> > I am considering doing POE. However, I make my own cables. After > > doing a little research, I noticed that I might be making the cables > > incorrectly. Be that as it may, I generally do it like this. > > > > Line up the wires, alternating stripped and solid wires, but always > > keeping similar colors together. If I need a straight thru cable, I > > make it straight through, and if I need a cross over, I just reverse > > the order of the wires in plug 2 from the wires in plug one. > > Ummm, no. Look up EIA/TIA 586B, which is the "standard" way of wiring > CAT5. EIA/TIA 586A is the "crossed over" end of a crossover. Both of you are wrong.
586A/B differ only in colors of wires. 586A is not crossover. If you wire ethernet cable alternating solids and striped, you are in for a LOT of pain, because, ethernet needs pins 1 and 2 to be on the same twisted pair, and pins 3 & 6. Since you keep colors together, your 3 & 6 will definitely not be on same pair. =alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
