[TriLUG] OT: Home Depot and Cat 5

[Brandon L. Newport]

100BaseT does not use all 4 pairs.  It uses the same 2 pair as 10BaseT. 
1000BaseT does use all 4 pairs.



-brandon


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:40, Brian Henning wrote:
> > One thing I can tell you is that the non-working cable has only 4
> conductors
> > crimped. For long cables, should all 8 be crimped?
> 
> As I understand it, 10-base-T needs 4 conductors (two signal, two ground)
> and 100-base-T requires all 8 (four signal, four ground).
> 
> Someone correct me if I'm wrong!
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Brian
>