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Originally Posted by peppy
I was playing with my new cable tester yesterday and connected it to the garage run. The lights were all over the place. I must have been color blind when I connected the jack in the garage (and when I double checked), because it wasn't even close. I guess you can wire up the jacks wrong and they will still work.
I also found patch cables that i made that were working, but wires were crossed.
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Most newer GbE physical layer devices (the piece of silicon that drives the copper cable at both ends of the wire) are capable of automatically detecting cable pair P/N reversals and pair/pair swaps just because cable pullers can't build cables correctly
It's also been at least 10 years since I've seen even a consumer grade switch that wasn't capable of establishing a valid link across at least 150 meters of decent CAT 5 or 5e cable. Length should not be an issue for you.
Gary