10-BT Ethernet Cable Patterns

Hold the cable with the connector pointed up and the thumb-piece pointed away from you.  In the following patterns, if you see white on top of orange, it means the white/orange striped wire which is twisted together with the orange wire.

Standard 10BT cable

• First end

• White	Orange	White	Blue	White	Green	White	Brown
  Orange		Green		Blue		Brown

• Second end

White	Orange	White	Blue	White	Green	White	Brown
Orange		Green		Blue		Brown

Reversing 10BT cable (hub-to-hub, computer-to-computer or model-A12 ADSL modem-to-computer)

• First end

• White	Orange	White	Blue	White	Green	White	Brown
  Orange		Green		Blue		Brown

• Second end

• White	Green	White	Blue	White	Orange	White	Brown
  Green		Orange		Blue		Brown

When wiring a home for ethernet, the most economical setup is to run a single cat5 wire from the hub location to each room.  That wire can be split into two 10BT connections.  We have two-connection faceplates at Cactus Computer which attach to regular electrical boxes.  We also have the keystone jacks which go on the ends of the wires and insert into the faceplates.  Both ends of the cable should be the same.  Only four wires are active for 10BT, so use the other four in the bottom hole as below.