"Ray" wrote in message
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I've installed tooless Cat5 jacks on both ends of my cable using the T568A
convention;

PIN NUMBER COLOR
1 Green/White
2 Green
3 Orange/White
4 Blue
5 Blue/White
6 Orange
7 Brown/White
8 Brown

I purchased a Cat5e patch cord and noticed that these wire colors do not
match my jack colors.

They are set up the following way looking left to right with the snap
release pointed up and the connection towards you:

orange/white, orange, blue/white, blue, green/white, green, brown/white,
brown

Is this a problem ?? I feel that if as long as there is 8 wires,
regardles
of the color coming out of the router, there is a path to send and recieve
data.

Am I correct ??

Thanks,
Ray

The wires in the cable are twisted so the solid and the solid/white are
together. One for the signal and one for a ground. This prevents what is
called cross talk, or one wire's signal mixing with the next wire. Just
looking at what you have , it may be that one is what they call a crossover
cable. That is some of the wires are reversed from one plug to the next.
They are made that way for several reasons. One is that you can hook 2
computers together with the crossover cable without a router. It only works
for two computers that way in a network. The cables are not
interchangable..