Cat 5 Cable Wiring Order

The complete ethernet pinout cable wiring reference with wiring step by step guide.

Cat 5 cable wiring order.

Note the maximum cable length of cat 5 cat 5e or cat 6 ethernet cable is 328 feet or 100 meters. Flatten the end between your thumb and forefinger. Cat 5 is also used to carry other signals such as telephony and video. As for which one to use when making your own ethernet cables it doesn t really matter.

It is important to wire according to a standard to get proper performance from the ethernet cable. Click to check the right one for you or print as reference. You don t want to successfully wire your ethernet cable and discover it s not long enough for its desired purpose. Click to find view print and more.

Before you start cutting and crimping the wire make sure that it s the correct length. For a cross over cable the other end will have a different color order as shown by the crossover picture above. The tia eia 568 a specifies two wiring standards for an 8 position modular connector such as rj45. Ethernet cable an ethernet socket head and an ethernet socket head crimper.

Spread untwist the pairs and arrange the wires in the order of the desired cable end. Rj45 pinout diagram shows wiring for standard t568b t568a and crossover cable. This task will require. For the straight through wiring method there are two standards recognized by ansi tia and eia.

However the t568b is considered better than t568a wiring standard. Category 5 cable cat 5 is a twisted pair cable for computer networks since 2001 the variant commonly in use is the category 5e specification cat 5e the cable standard provides performance of up to 100 mhz and is suitable for most varieties of ethernet over twisted pair up to 1000base t gigabit ethernet. Both of them can be used. Cat5e wiring should follow the standard color code.

Printable version of. However for any other normal ethernet cable both ends will have the same wiring sequence. The two wiring standards t568a and t568b vary only in the arrangement of the colored pairs. Cat 3 and cat 5.

Trim the ends of the wires so they are even with one another leaving only 1 2 in wire length. Remember the rj45 wiring order. If it is longer than 1 2 it will be out of spec and susceptible to crosstalk. For a standard straight through cable repeat all steps and wire color order on the other end of cable.

T 568b is fairly common in the us because it s compatible with older telephone gear and you can plug in a phone line to an ethernet jack that uses t 568b.