DS1 Cable Pinouts 2

[sideshowpete]

Hey folks

Just purchased a new DS1 board for a 3rd T I'm going to add to my S8500/G650. In the documentation it says words to the effect of "don't use a CAT5 cable to run from the CSU to the smart jack". I can't say as I've ever used anything other than a standard CAT5 from CSU to smart jack.

Anyone have any insight ?

Thanks

Pete

 

[rlance610]

You can use a cat5e cable, but the sheilding on it is not very good. Thats why they have T1 cables with extra shielding that you can buy. But in reality I have never had an issue with a standard cat5e cable as long as 1,2 and 4,5 are the same on both ends.

 

[sideshowpete]

Awesome, thanks.

 

[CBB]

T1 cables have only two pair and each pair is separately shielded. If you have multiple T1 cables next to each other the individual shielding becomes more important.