On 19/08/2007 09:59, Icky Thwacket wrote:

If you get stuck you could always make your own using torn down flat'n'twist
cable:-

http://tinyurl.com/3xngko

This has the same nominal Zo (100R) as cat5 and is certainly within the cat5
spec. of 22dB loss over 100m.

The "flat" sections would allow some interference or cross-talk and the
pairs should really all have different twist rates, not the same, but
for reasonably short lengths should get away with it, gigabit might
complain more than 10/100Mb (assuming the OP wants this for ethernet).