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#199915 - 03/14/11 10:54 AM Re: Cat6 installation [Re: Merlin]
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Mike, Hal is alive and well. I communicate with him pretty much daily on another forum. You're right though, he knows his stuff and definitely has an opinion. No mixed words in his vocabulary.
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Sophisticated test equipment, calibrated properly, can detect the minute differences in length of each pair, caused by their differing twist rates. If you have a switch or rack set up for 568B and you terminate by the A color code on a B jack, even if you do both ends the same, the cable should fail. Not all test equipment produces this result. You get what you pay for.

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