Cat5e Straight Through Patch Cable

For use with 10 100 1000 mbps networks.

Cat5e straight through patch cable.

Shielded housing protects against emi rfi. When we talk about cat5e patch cables the straight through wired cat5e patch cable is used to connect computers printers and other network client devices to the router switch or hub the host device in this instance. Cat5e ethernet straight through patch cable stp overall foil shield rj45 male to rj45 male 3ft cable length blue. Both ends use the same wiring standard.

Two computers via their network interface controllers or two switches to each other by contrast patch cables or straight through cables are used to connect devices of different types such as a computer to a. However there isn t any straight through form of cable when it comes to fibre patch cable. Patch cables are straight through cables that connects devices of different types computer to network switch or ethernet hub. So both side connector a and connector b of patch cable have wire arrangement with same patch cable colors as shown in the following picture.

Patch cables can come in two different wiring applications. A straight through cable is a type of twisted pair cable that is used in local area networks to connect a computer to a network hub such as a router. Therefore a 568b patch cable should work fine on a 568a cabling system and visa versa. This type of cable is also sometimes called a patch cable and is an alternative to wireless connections where one or more computers access a router through a wireless signal.

Virtually all pre assembled patch cables are wired to the b standard. The straight through wired cat5e patch cable can connect the router switch or hub the host device in this instance to computers printers and other network client devices. Go to the product overview for this category. There is no difference in connectivity between 568b and 568a cables.

It allows you to extend the length of a cat5e patch cable by adding another cat5e patch cable. The type of cable that is required depends on the application. It is most often used to connect two devices of the same type e g. Ethernet crossover cable is a type of crossover cable for ethernet.

Tripp lite s shielded cat5e standalone rj45 straight inline coupler provides a female to female feed through connection. In other words patch cable does not change or swap along its way. For patch cables 568 b wiring is by far the most common wiring method. An ethernet crossover cable is a crossover cable for ethernet used to connect computing devices together directly.

So a patch cable is often called a straight through cable.