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Hi.

I have a customer with a cat6 from his house to a workshop on his land further up. Most of the run is underground, and the pipe is fair tight.

3 of the cores are damaged at some point and he's reluctant to pull a new cable in if he can avoid it since its a massive run, although I have stressed that this is the best option.

If cores are in order 1 to 8 if I remember correctly it was 3, 4, and 5 that were damaged. maybe 4, 5, and 6. (Either way both blues and one of of the greens.)

As I understand it, the greens are the issue as the blues are not connected in a switch or router, so If I did a little moving around of the order of the cores and replace browns with the greens say, in the rj45 plug, could this work?

This cable is going straight from a router to a switch, no PoE or anything like that.

For the record I have googled it but I've seen different options on what the cores actually do, so I just need some guidance.
 
, so If I did a little moving around of the order of the cores and replace browns with the greens say, in the rj45 plug, could this work?

I'd go with Yes. As long as you are replacing a damaged twisted pair with a unused twisted pair I can't see the problem.
 
If it's only being used for 10/100 speeds then reusing the other cores should prove successful. If it's being used for Gig ethernet, gig requires all 4 pairs so it would not be possible.
 

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