Help with Cat5 cable wires' colour coding

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Hello,

I have this Cat5 cable dangling at my celler and provides wired connectivity to other floors of the house (they are now disconnected of course).

I wish to connect then to a patch panel. But the wires' colouring looks different Specially the red and blue coulored wires, please see the pic below.



Now I am aware of the T568-A and -B Wiring standards, but the above one confuses me. In fact the Patch Panel where I will connect has clearly marked places for the A & B standards.

So how do I connect the one show in the picture to my Patch Panel? Can anyone please tell me the colour to colour matching?

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 

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Probably not....I am not sure! I also did not see any special markings, but I will check again.
btw - there are telephone sockets at the 1st floor for DSL connectivity. But the cable shown in the pic is not connected to this telephone socket.

Using this cable I MUST transmit Ethernet connectivity from the cellar to the roof floor. The router is located at the celler/basement. I am installing a Patch panel and linking the wires. I do not want to WiFi repeaters.
The cable pic shown runs through the walls, and end up at an RJ45 socket at the roof-floor.

What should I do?
 

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Hi,

maybe a telephone line.
But I see (correct me if I´m wrong) shielding sheet as well as shielding strands. So maybe it is CAT5.

I personally think there is a good chance that it will work for 100MBit ethernet.
Try it. Not much to lose.

The most important: treat paris as pairs (according original ethernet wiring) and don´t confuse polarity of the pairs.

Otherwise: Transmitting a differential signal via two wires of different (twisted) pairs .. will cause a lot of echoing, crosstalk and loss. No high data rate possible.

Klaus
 

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Yes, it's telephone cable. Works well for Ethernet, need to define your own pair mapping.
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Expect that it even works for 1000BASE-T with reduced length, e.g. 10 or 20 m. I plan to try in my home.
 
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