Ethernet woes… hmmm what to do!

[Avo Mk8]

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've seen UTP cable without tracer colours on the white wires! Is that normal?
It's wired unconventionally colour wise, but I guess if it's the same both ends, that shouldn't matter.

Given the whites don't seem to have obvious tracer colours, are you absolutely sure the correct white that is twisted with each colour is in the appropriate adjacent slot?

Edit - looking more closely, perhaps I do see tracers. Must get eyes tested!

 

[Lucien Nunes]

I guess if it's the same both ends, that shouldn't matter.

Provided the pairs are not split, which would mangle the transmission performance. Pairs split the same way at both ends would test OK on a simple blinkenlights continuity tester, but fail to carry data.

 

[James]

it looks like you have wired green + green/wht the wrong way round
also brown + brown/wht

also, it is normal to leave the pairs twisted until they get to the terminal.

it is not the same as a simple multi core cable, if you get the cores the wrong way round, even if you have continuity between all the correct pins, you will still not get a stable data connection.

 

[ZeroZero]

Thank you all for your support. I just could not get this working, so substituted a cat 5e cable and it’s now all working. I am getting 135 mob per second , however virgin is going down all day off and on, confirmed by neighbours. Big outages over London. Alls well that ends well.
thank you all again for your efforts.

 

[LightningSteve]

Running an Ethernet cable to my outdoor studio. I did this successfully before using cat 5 but cable severed. Run a new cable cat 6e. This cable is terminated at two Ethernet sockets one in the house the other in the studio.
No signal, tested the connections using an Ethernet tester, the one with eight lights and a ground. No lights. Thought I pulled the cable too hard, bought another cable also cat 6e, tested that withe same sockets, no lights again.
Treble checked my wires are firmly in place and correctly colour coded, identical both ends. No lights at all. Tested the tester on a spare Ethernet cable, this works.

Completely flummoxed now.

Do I have the wrong sockets? Are cat 5 and cat 6 cables incompatible?

can anyone help please?

Z

Cat6 are supposed to be backwards compatible with Cat5. This might help... Differences Between CAT5e, CAT6 & CAT6a Cables | 4Cabling - https://www.4cabling.co.nz/blog/CAT5e-vs-CAT6-vs-CAT6a-whats-the-difference.html