2 Ethernet Cables

rctneil

rctneil

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I ahve two ethernet cables which I need identifying. I ahve tried looking at diagrams online but they just do not match up tot he cables themselves.

I have posted pics of the two cables below:

Cable 1:

Text written on cable:

YFC UTP Cat5.E PATCH ISO/IEC

Pictures:

ethernet4.jpg




Cable 2:

Text written on cable:

UTP Cat 6 PATCH Cord COPARTNER

Pictures:

ethernet1.jpg

ethernet2.jpg

ethernet3.jpg


Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
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What equipment you planning to use them in most new router/switches allow crossover to be uses as patch now anyway.

1 of them is def patch cable you can tell both ends have same colours the other looks like it could be crossover.
 
Straight cable? It only has 2 wired connections, If it was the middle 2 I would have said voice only. So no idea. Have no clue as to where the 'its a straight through cable' comes form, unless you have changed your pics.

The second one is also not a standard crossover cable.
EDIT: My mistake, its Cat6. Its a gigabit crossover cable, which is different to a 'normal' cat5e crossover cable! So its normal.
 
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Right, Picture 1 is the first cable and pictures 2, 3 and 4 are the second cable.

Please try and help me identify them?

I am just confused with everything everyone has stated.

Sorry, that sounded bad, I appreciate your help above but could someone try and simplify it a bit. I don;t want to use the cables for anything, Just trying to find out what type of cables they are

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
Looks to me like pictures 1 and 3 are the same. Only has 2 wires connected. And its definately unknown

Pictures 2 and 4 are the CAT6 Gigabit crossover cable (Will not work as a CAT5e 100Mb crossover cable)
 
Ok . . . Cable 1 is a Gigabit crossover patch cable. Not to be confused with a 10/100 crossover cable.

Cable 2 only has 2 wires? Even though it looks like they are all there? Its hard to tell . . . .
 
Cable 1 is a Cat6 crossover cable for gigabit. There's no reason not to use it for 10/100.
Only the end shot of cable 2 shows all the colours. The other two only show the top most wires because of the angle and shadows. This is a straight through patch cable.
 
Im still not convinced that the 2nd cable looks right tbh. It surely only shows 2 wires, I know you can see more end on, but it looks like the rest have been removed from the plug. Can the OP confirm that all 8 wires are present going back into the cable and that none have been cut?

This might be useful

http://www.peakelec.co.uk/content/ethernet.html

Incidently, I have one of their testers, and they are great pieces of kit.
 
I dont see what the cable with a couple wires in can do. The green wires on one end dont connect to anything on the other by the looks of it, and the blue on the other end dont connect anything on the other end.

The only reason to use less then all the wires is to try and maximise the number of connected hosts with minimal cables because to use 10/100 Mb/s you only need 2 pairs of wires, not all 4. It's only 1000Mb/s that requires all 4 pairs of wires. Since this cable has cat 6 written on it though, i am not up to date with cat 6 standards so i am not sure what type of cable it is, but based on my knowledge of cat 5 i would say that it shouldnt even work.
 
All the cables are in there, look at the photo below that one and you see the ends of them. It's just that those two pairs are ontop of the rest for some reason
 
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