Cat6A pairs

May 31, 2012 159 Replies

Try to utilize (and then write using) complete sentences, idiot.

Two pairs have one level of twist. The other two have another level of twist.

One set of pairs is more twisted than the other set.

Try to grasp that fact, child.

One set of pairs is twisted less than the other set.

Simple math and logic, but I thought I'd spell it out for you.

Oh boy!

Massa Wiah Twistah Boi!

I was twisting wire before you even knew what "electricity" was that 'made your TV work' when you were physically a boy, boy.

Come back when your mental age actually gains about 10 years.

I tire easily of twelve year old mentalities.

At the rate you "advance" however, you'll be 95 years old before you turn 19.

You are apparently the one here who thinks you know so much about the COMMUNICATIONS spec from being a mere WIRE BOY for a few years.

The SPEC uses it. Period. Get a clue. Been that way (the twist pith differences) since CAT5 and CAT6 follows the practice.

The pairs, in fact, all four have a different twist pitches and if your machine does not fine resolve the twist pitch, then it is a piece of s*it machine.

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They are all four different, and by 'general' appearance they look like two pairs at one pitch and two at another.

They are close to that, but are actually all slightly different in a fully conformal manufacturing process.

I have seen vendor data sheets which declare it and have tables for it even, while offering older spec wire all twisted the same as well.

If you hook up the old stuff (or likely your s*it), you will not get a full 100 base T handshake, much less anything faster. Even my new std cable modem blinks a different color on the front panel indicators if I use a s*it cable to link to it.

We used shrouded connectors at work and shielded CAT6 wire and insure that the twists remain right up to the connector header and crimp the drain into the shroud. The receptacle has to be shrouded CAT6 as well and the internal cable on the other (back)side of that bulkhead as well, if that is what it is plugged into.

I make clean, high speed EYE. AND I know why.

You make fuzzy, spur laden EYE. Because you don't even know what one has to do to RETAIN CAT6 compliance throughout a circuit path. The ENTIRE path.

You don't even have part of the clue. The ENTIRE clue.

But you probably know how to make the wire twisting machine twist wire.

You just likely have no clue how accurate the twisting has to be. That is based on your pathetic responses.

What a moron... A complete ignoramus. I wonder what the rest of your family looks like? Most likely all four legged.

Jamie

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Go play with your crap products. We actually make products that work better than others. There is a reason for that. But you wouldn't know it if it was staring at you.

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What a hopeless case..

Jamie

No thanks. Especially if your 'expertise' is part of their 'formula' for success.

Not interested in looking at a photo, trying to find the dung heap in it.

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Yes, it does. The twist differences are required by TIA-568. It is also done with Cat3. Moreover, the twist of each pair is varied over the length of the cable.

Usability for any given purpose is a different question.

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Cat 5E has about 60 percent more useful bandwidth.

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You should see the machine in operation that does that all in one pass !

Jamie

Is the skew mostly from the difference in the twist?

In an old logic analyzer they had about 10 or 20 feet of ordinary ribbon cable used as a delay line.

Over 100M the difference in length due to the twist could be 45 feet.

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It would be a kick to see it live. I have seen videos of the building of

600 pair armored cat 3 cables.

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Apparently so. The CAT6A-U/FTP (individually shielded pairs) has much less skew. I assume they don't vary the twists on that version.

That might just work!

The spec is 45 ns per 100m, and we're measuring almost that on CAT6A-F/UTP, so the equivalent delta-length is 30 feet or so. Awful when skew matters.

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It must have. Gould Biomation beat HP in that market at the time.

You mean it might work in your app? Glad I mentioned it.

Are alternate grounds enough to make up for the lack of twist? I guess so, but my inexperienced intuition tells me there would be crosstalk.

They had the ribbon fan-folded and jammed in a tight space. I'm surprised there were no ghost pulses as well.

Of course you could put foil on both sides before folding, but they didn't.

I first think of Grace Hopper who used 1-foot lengths of wire for her demo, but that really is the speed in vacuum so 8 inches makes sense.

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600 Pairs is a lot. Years ago when telephone wire was in we used to make the wire that drops down in the ocean with very many pairs. If there was a defect on that cable, it was repaired in house.

We'd find it with a fault analyzer and open the jacket. Fish down in there with surgical tools and repair it.

Jamie

Yeah, it's a LOT nicer when there's a standard for the connector. SCSI, for example: I started making a list of those connectors, and there were only ... eighteen. That was before SAS, of course.

Thank God for, and long live SAS!!!

Do any experimenting with that idea?

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look at the "fast" parallel ata cable that is, half the pitch of standard ribbon cable and half of the wires are ground

must be a decent transmission line for 66MHz data rate

-Lasse

They are commonly referred to as "differential pairs".

There are also twisted pair ribbon forms the SCSI boys used to use.

AlwaysWrong, "half the wires grounded" is *not* the same as "differential pairs". There is nothing "differential" about it.

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