AM27C256

joined 10 months ago
[–] AM27C256@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Apparently an old-style French phone cable. For phone uses, it is:

1 grey

2 transparent/pink

3 white

4 brown

5 blue

6 yellow

7 purple

8 orange

Looks like that pairing is unsuitable for Ethernet, so I'll use something else.

[–] AM27C256@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Now that I know this cable is called PTT-298, I found that apparently lots of people managed to get 1 Gb/s Ethernet working on it.

[–] AM27C256@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I think I'll just match colors as far as I can:

1 White

2 Grey

3 Yellow

4 Blue

5 Pink

6 Orange

7 Purple

8 Brown

Then I basically only need to remember that Grey is Green, and otherwise just use the colors as I'm used to.

[–] AM27C256@alien.top 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The pairs are grey/white, blue/pink, brown/purple, orange/yellow.

There is one twist per 1.5 cm.

 

Found this UTP cable once meant for telephones, want to reuse it for Ethernet. Is there some official translation of this color code to what is common on TP cable for Ethernet?

https://preview.redd.it/9k4h5ca3wn2c1.jpg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=03a7ca4ebdbdf633269d2562b4125eddf816e6a8