28 Feb
2002
28 Feb
'02
1:25 p.m.
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Feb 28, 14:48, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner
wrote:
I haven't found 586A to be used more than 586B here in the US. Nearly
every ethernet installation I've worked on used 586B, but I have seen 586A
used quite abit for Token Ring over twisted pair.
-Toth
Do you mean for the outside sleeve, or the
individual wires in the
cable? For the outside, there is no real standard color that I'm aware
of, although there is a standard ordering for the wires when crimping
(I think it goes orange, green, brown, blue (solid followed by white
and color) but don't quote me on that---it's been awhile since I've
crimped CAT5 network cables).
Not quite. It's white-with-colour then plain colour (or colour with a
thin white stripe or rings), and the common order in Europe is T568B
(aka 258A):
I believe the common order in the States is to swap orange and green
pairs, which is T568A. If you use one scheme at one end and the other
scheme at the opposite end, you have a standard Ethernet crossover
cable. ie, pins 1 and 2 are swapped with pins 3 and 6 but pins 4+5
and 7+8 are straight-through.