Hi Patrick,

  I've seen the pinouts. From down, pairs 1-3 and 2-6 are OK. The rest are
not. But the guy at the shop told me only these two pairs are used for
Ethernet anyway -- is he correct?

  My multimeter shows a good connection of one wire, so I can't test
pairs.

  Yours,

<> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Patrick Black wrote:

> Max,
>
> Make sure your using the correct pin out.  Goto
> http://www.wtvi.com/teks/exchange/crossovercable.html,
> this site has a great graphic on how the pinout should be. Now does the
> mulitmeter your using
> show the wire pairs that are working(or not working)???  The best tester is
> one that will show what wire pairs
> can communicate with each other.

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