Great, thanks for the info everyone.  As to having 10 wires, and black pair, 
I was just typing and didn't really pay attention to count/color.  Was more 
of a demo purpose than anything.  Was looking for the color pattern/wiring 
layout more than anything as well as where to hook the uplink port to on my 
3Com hub.

The collisions I was getting was with no other network traffic going on and 
it was maybe 35MB's of data going from one machine to another.  I think 
across the uplink cable, but can't recall specificly off the top of my head 
(I'm at work).

I think I have a tan wire instead of a green-white, but I'll figure that out. 
 Thanks again.


Shawn


On Monday 19 November 2001 11:13, Troy.A Johnson wrote:
> This is 10 wires. Cat 5 has 8, as do RJ45 connectors.
>
> For straight through cable, clip on the bottom, from
> left to right:
>
> orange white
> orange
> green white
> blue
> blue white
> green
> brown white
> brown
>
> (if I remember correctly). :-/
>
> Your uplink port can be connected to any
> of the standard ports on your other hub with
> straight through cable.
>
> Troy
>
> >>> fertch at mninter.net 11/19/01 11:06AM >>>
>
> This brings up an interesting point.  I have two hubs at home, both are
> 10Mbs.  I was transferring files from one machine to another, and I was
> getting collisions. The tranfer was fine, but I got to thinking about this.
> I made my own cabling, but I don't know if I have then right or not.  Could
> someone either color code both ends for me?  I thought it was like below:
>
> orange
> orange-white
> blue
> blue-white
> brown
> brown-white
> green
> green-white
> black
> black-white
>
>   Is this correct if you are looking at both cable ends with the security
> clip towards you going from left to right?  Also, one of my hubs is a 8
> port +bnc + 1 uplink (it's a D-link) and the other is a standard 8 port hub
> (3 Com).  So, would my uplink port go to port 8 of the 3Com hub?
>
>   If someone can answer this or provide a link of proper cable making
> procedures, would appreciate it greatly.
>
>
> Shawn
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