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Re: OT: Strange network cable problem
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: OT: Strange network cable problem":
> You know that wires for 100Mb/s ethernet are called "Category 5" UTP
> (unshielded twisted pair), right? This category 5 (and I'm sure some of the
> EE'ers on this list can explain it much better than I can) has to do with
>..
After writing the above from-memory-account of how UTP works, I looked for
a good short reference on how UTP works, what kinds of noises/crosstalk can
occur despite the differential signaling, and so on, and I found
http://www.ora.com/reference/dictionary/terms/U/Unshielded_Twisted_Pair.htm
It should be an interesting read to anyone attempting to build UTP wires
(or even terminate UTP wires) him/herself.
One particularly interesting paragraph says:
"A Category 5 cable installation requires more than just Category 5 cable.
For example, installation practices (such as not untwisting a pair more
than 1/2 inch when terminating it onto a connector) must be met. ..."
This is easy to get wrong if you terminate a UTP wire for the first time
by yourself, and didn't know that the twisting was so important.
Or, again, the wire itself can simply be faulty from the start: a twist
which is not tight enough, or not twisted properly (see the above reference)
is likely to make a cable worthless for 100 Mb/s transmission.
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