But in all honestly as long as the cables match on either end it doesn't matter even in the slightest what color they actually are so I never understood why they used such weird pairing either.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It matters for longer runs and higher speed. The twist provides noise cancellation effect

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It matters that you do the pairs right. CC-B-AA-B-DD. It doesn’t matter which color is which, except to make it easier to get the ends to match.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I thought that you mean the color doesn't matter just that they match on the termination point, not as a pair. So you can have C with brown and green for example

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That you cannot do. Or at least you’ll have a lot of connectivity problems if you do.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which is why I said it matters for long run. A short cable run would still probably work even if suboptimal.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

For certain values of “work” I suppose. You’ll get a link light, probably.

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