UTP Cat5

spaceballs · 03-30-2005, 01:16 PM

I have a UTP Cat 5 question for you folks. Now we all know there are four pairs making up eight total wires. The more twists you have yields a much better throughput. I had heard somewhere that the orange and orange white pair and the brown and brown white pair had more twists per foot than the blue and green pairs. Can anyone back me up on this? I mentioned this to someone and they looked at me like I was a fool. Is my claim grounded in anything, or has someone been pulling wool over my eyes?

cereal83 · 03-30-2005, 01:20 PM

Wow some people care about some weird things.

I cannot confirm anything but who cares if 1 wire has 2 more twists then the other one?

It just shields it better so you have like 0.0001% cleaner signal.

I dunno I would like to know the answer also!

michaelk · 03-30-2005, 02:36 PM

It is true but I do not know which pair has more twists. This is to keep crosstalk between the pairs at a min.