A friend gave me what looks like a network cable, with a modular plug
with 8 slots, but the only ones with wires are slots 1,2,3 and 6.

What is this cable meant for?

Il giorno lunedì 25 luglio 2016 10:23:48 UTC+2, Micky ha scritto:
A friend gave me what looks like a network cable, with a modular plug
with 8 slots, but the only ones with wires are slots 1,2,3 and 6.

What is this cable meant for?

a photo might help...

Bye Jack

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Il giorno lunedì 25 luglio 2016 10:23:48 UTC+2, Micky ha scritto:
A friend gave me what looks like a network cable, with a modular plug
with 8 slots, but the only ones with wires are slots 1,2,3 and 6.

RJ-45 plug has 8 contacts (slots?), and wiring only 1,2 and 3,6 pairs makes a
10 Mbit/s cable, either straight or crossed.
It could be made to connect an old 10 BASE-T network card or it's just a
leftover from the previous century.

Frank

Micky wrote:

A friend gave me what looks like a network cable, with a modular plug
with 8 slots, but the only ones with wires are slots 1,2,3 and 6.

What is this cable meant for?

Fast ethernet (100Mbps) only uses pins 1, 2, 3 & 6, all eight are used
for Gigabit ethernet, do the pairs cross over 1/2-3/6 or straight
through 1/2-1/2?

On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 08:37:59 +0000 (UTC), frank
wrote:

wrote:
Il giorno lunedì 25 luglio 2016 10:23:48 UTC+2, Micky ha scritto:
A friend gave me what looks like a network cable, with a modular plug
with 8 slots, but the only ones with wires are slots 1,2,3 and 6.

RJ-45 plug has 8 contacts (slots?),

I translated the word from the Abysinnian. That's what we say there!

Or maybe that's what they say at the Abysinnian Flamingo Casino in
downtown Djibouti.

and wiring only 1,2 and 3,6 pairs makes a
10 Mbit/s cable, either straight or crossed.
It could be made to connect an old 10 BASE-T network card or it's just a
leftover from the previous century.

It's pretty old. I think my friend brought it over last year
complaining it didn't work on his Mac. Of course that doesn't explain
why he had it. I just gave him another cable and didn't look at his
much until the other day. I wish I could tell him what I just
learned but he died last march at 78.

Thanks Frank and Andy, and Jack for trying.

Frank