OT: cat 5 cable, ethernet, connection jacks

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Tue Mar 29 20:07:00 UTC 2005


Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:22:20PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>According to what I read, Gigabit can handle either cable type.
> 
> 
> Well not from what I read.  At least you must have 4 wire pais intact
> for gigabit to work, and many crossover ethernet only have two pairs
> connected at all.

OK, assuming all 4 pairs are present, gigabit can handle either cable type.
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