Ok one of my ethernet wire got messed up and im trying to connect another wire to it to make it longer.
the problem is that each of the wires has slightly different colors.
I put:
Black with Black
Blue with Blue
Yellow with Yellow
Green with Green
Red with Red
Brown with brown
all of those match up but I have left on wire 1 is: Pink and Purple
on wire 2 I have: Gray and Orange
which wire goes with which
2007-02-04 08:19:19 · 6 answers · asked by BLink182rulezzzzz 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
How to wire Ethernet Cables
2007-02-04 08:29:17 · answer #1 · answered by -=*QA*=- 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best advice I can give you is to not splice ethernet cables. you are asking for problems and unreliable behavior.
It sounds like you are not using standard cat 5 cable, as such, it may or may not work correctly at all.
There is a reason that the wire pairs are twisted in a certain fashion, and if you go too far out of spec, your ethernet connection will not work properly.
Amateur cablers think that as long as you have conductivity between the ends in the right position, you are okay. This is far from the truth. This might work at 10Mb/Half Duplex, but even at that speed, if wired incorrectly, you will get crosstalk or signal loss which will cause errors on the wire and slow down your connection considerably. The amount of twists per foot can vary between the pairs, and the amount of twists throughout the cable among the pairs can vary. The color standards are not simply guidelines, they are rules.
2007-02-04 08:26:56 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda H 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To avoid this in the future, there is an 89 cent cat 5 jumper with 2 female ends that lets you plug two cable together. Radio shack carries them.
2007-02-04 08:29:45 · answer #3 · answered by Gene M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You choose as long as you preserve continuity the color doesn't matter there are several standards but they are just that standards so you do not have to think and remember several combinations that you may use depending on your mood. so remember if you match pink with gray always match pink and gray in the future
2007-02-04 08:29:59 · answer #4 · answered by nickedsk8er 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
One wire will be for CAT 5 cabling and the other one CAT 5E
2007-02-04 08:24:36 · answer #5 · answered by Michael F 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
you have a 4 pair cat3 wire there
cat5 / 5e colors are always blue/blue white green /green white / orange / orange white brown / brown white
2007-02-04 09:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋