How should a Cat5 Cable be wired?

[Gillbot]

Cable says Cat 5 UTP LG Cable, cable doesn't work and i think maybe wired wrong or?

 

[JW310]

Look at a pic of cable ends I made here. The two ends shown are for a crossover cable; if you want to make a straight-through cable (regular patch cable), then wire both ends the same (the way on the right or the way on the left).

The colors should go like this (with the cable towards you and the clip down):
Green/White,Green,Orange/White,Blue,Blue/White,Orange,Brown/White,Brown on one end and
Orange/White,Orange,Green/White,Blue,Blue/White,Green,Brown/White,Brown on the other for a crossover cable, and for a straight-through wire both ends the same.

Hope this helped.

JW

 

[PELarson]

<< Cable says Cat 5 UTP LG Cable, cable doesn't work and i think maybe wired wrong or? >>

Excellent reference!

 

[Gillbot]

the cable i'm looking at is:
(with the cable towards you and the clip down)

Orange/White,Orange,Green/White,none,none,Green,none,none
and the other is
Green/White,Green,Orange/White,none,none,Orange,none,none

 

[ccalvert]

Gillbot, The cable that you have appears to be a crossover cable. The four missing wires are not used in 10BaseT or 100BaseTX. If you are connecting a computer to a hub or switch, then you will probably want a stright through cable, in which case the cable you have would not work. If you want to link two hubs togeather, or connect two PCs without a hub, then the cable you have should work, assuming that it is not defective.

 

[Gillbot]

but this cable can do 100 and 10 M right?
it's ok if it's a x-over, i can just plug it to the reg port instead of a x-over or uplink port.

 

[ccalvert]

Yes, assuming that there are no problems with the cable, it should be able to do either 10 or 100 Mbps. I have a paper somewhere that tells what all of the different meenings are for the codes on cables, like the &quot;LG&quot; on yours. I have no idea where that might be now, but I wouldn't think that it would make any difference for what you are doing.

 

[Gillbot]

thanks a bunch

saves me from buying another one from circut city