Re: DB25 to RJ-45 Connectors

John G. Thompson (jgt10@livingston.com)
Mon, 9 Dec 1996 11:05:52 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Derek Elder wrote:
>
> Could one of you fine people email me a contact for ordering DB25 to RJ45
> connectors? I want to put one of them on a PM2 port and one on a modem
> and connect them with a cat 5 cable.
>
> I'd really like for them to be premade :)

Ah, I don't think you want to do that. Cat 5 is twisted pair and normal
DB-25 cables are untwisted. Modem signals don't work well over twisted
pair, I had one site that had that cat 5 stuff and was having TONS of
problems, went to flat satin (read unwtwisted) and problems vanished.

Just a warning, you may actually get it to work.

JGT

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