Topband: 2Wire, Inc. 3800HGV-B Gateway. RFI --Problem fixed for now….

[Jim Brown]

On 2/3/2012 9:09 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> The guy thinks that bending and semi crushing the
> CAT5 twisted pairs, messes up the twists.

That makes sense, and is what I was talking about.  It's a well known 
issue with garden variety CAT5/6 cables.  But it would likely be solved 
by using a better grade of CAT6/7, like Belden Mediatwist. It does (at 
least) two things that resist deformation -- first, each pair is molded 
together. Second, the cable has an unusual cross-section construction.  
Belden does the pair molding on their lower cost CAT5/6 cables too, but 
not the unusual cross section, which I would guess gets halfway there. .

73, Jim K9YC