On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, John G. Thompson wrote:
> 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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