Great Cat 5 Cable Layout
As there are four pairs of copper wires inside a length of cat5e cable the cable pinouts should be carefully managed.
Cat 5 cable layout. Wire both ends identical 568b or 568a. Straight through 4 wire economy patch cable. Cat5e uses four twisted pairs for transmission in each cable.
Straight through 8 wire patch cable. Using a cable stripping tool strip about 1 3 of the out jacket of the cat 5 cable. Twisted crossover linn audio cable.
4 19 2012 2 41 13 pm. Straight through 6 wire voice data cable. 1 start at about 1 5 to 2 back on the cable and skin the cable s jacket.
Assemble the pairs of wires in the following order for network cables eai standard tia 568b. Be sure not to strip or damage any of the pairs of inner cables. Pin 1 is on the left hand side while holding the connector with the tab facing away from you.
Eia 568a white 0range eia 568b orange 4 blue 5 green brown tr02 r tr02 r trd3. What is the maximum length of an ethernet cable. An ethernet cables uses a rj45 connector that has 8 pins.
The maximum length of any ethernet cable cat 5 cat 6 or cat 7 is 100m or 328ft before any loss of traffic occurs. This form of cable is recognised by the tia eia and is defined in tia eia 568 being last revised in 2001. Category 5 cat5 cat5e cat6 wiring diagrams network cables straight through cables crossover cables token ring cables rj45 utp stp wiring instructions.