250 feet, yikes

also, 250ft of untwisted?

why

you're not going to make 250ft with shitty untwisted cable

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inb4 it's CCA too

So this box doesn't have communications. You can see the untwisted wires

it's untwisted because it's outside of the cable

judging by the cable it was twisted at one point

This box I have comms. You can see the wires twisted up to the solder cups

so the entire cable probably is

look at the mantle, does it say UTP on it

The 250 is twisted. Almost everything is twisted, except for the box that had the insulation pulled back to solder the cat5 to the cups.

it'll probably do 100mbit

So like 3-4inches of untwisted wire. Didn't know if that was enough to fuck up communication

10mbit if you really fucked it up

just try it

why are you only using two pairs

Oh I am. The shits also engineered really dumb. The piece of equipment goes rs232-485 then back to 232 to a 232-ethernet converter.

so it's rs485 on the cable then?

because im seeing two pairs

I'd use all 8 but the company that made it only uses 4. No it's ethernet

Tcp

well you'll get 100mbit if it works best case, since you're missing half the pairs

weird setup

the bigger question here is who engineered that pos

Stewart and Stevenson

S&S. If you've ever worked on their shit, you know my pain

am i glad we do all our ethernet and rs485 equipment in house

you could try twisting the wires back i guess

That's what I said but they want to take the boxes back to the electronics shop to redo

I use old CAT5E cables at 1Gbps

works well

gotta chink as much as I can

judging by the fact that you're running that magic shitpile of rs232/485/ethernet converters your speeds are probably well below 10 mbit anyways

decent hardware should be able to negotiate that, even over the worst cables

Literally got just a $60 chink TP-Link and CAT 5.E cables and easily do 1Gbps local transfers and WAN at 100Mbps if internet is needed.

You need a good enough switch for this, I tried going cheaper 100MBps-rated but it dies if the connection number goes too high due to weak CPU etc

tfw heaviest lifting on the network switching is done with TL-SG10E what i paid 20 for

used?

Ah no