On Friday, 6 September 2013 08:04:52 UTC+1, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

This is why it's worth getting the pros in to do data cable

installations rather than leaving it to the sparkies or so-called "IT

pros".

A friend of mine decided to make his own patch cable, thoght he did a good job but found he had far more 'collisions' then expected. The cause was that while he'd wired it up correctly he';d swapped teh colours over resulting in the pairs being re-twisted I think. Whenn tested he got around 3o-50% collisons which appeard to reduce the overall speed of the cable.

Thre's a fine line bewteen being a bit kinked and being twisted ask Jimmy savile ;-)