RE: OTish: Maplin CAT5 outlet

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've used these to set-up my first home network but I must
> have ballsed something up as it's not working. The double set
> of colours (and no pin numbers) on the back confused me for a
> bit but I guess this is for the two standards that I've read
> about - anyhow, am I right in thinking that as long as I used
> the same method at the start and finish then it doesn't
> matter what colour I used i.e as long a
> pin1 goes to pin1 then who cares if it's blue, green, orange etc.
> Might confuse someone else but should't stop the network from working.

No - unless you get the pairing of pins correct then you will end up with a
cable that checks out OK on a cheap network tester but which runs slowly or
not at all as an actual network. I have seen it done!

Phil