2 Ethernet cabling question

[Tim]

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 12:51 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Part of the trouble-shooting was making sure there weren't any cabling
> issues, so the client brought out an electrician.  Not only weren't
> the colors on the cable standard, they were different at each end!
> Our only guess was that there was a splice down in the pipe because
> whoever'd run the cable had run out of one batch and simply spliced on
> another.

Our phone lines do that, thanks to a plumber putting his oxy-acetelene
torch through the wires a bit near a pipe he cut through.  He could have
lifted the wires away, but he didn't.  And some of the pairs were so
badly corroded, that it was impossible to re-splice them, no matter how
far back we stripped the insulation.

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