I noticed that the grey ethernet cable that was included with my xbox 360 elite only has 3 wires in it, not 8.
Why is this? And will this ethernet cable work just like any other?
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blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso
It's a cat 3 cable.
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A cat3 cable has 6 wires, or three twisted pairs.
I have no idea what kind of cable that is that you are referring to....I've never seen an xbox come with a 3-wire cable (not that I've seen all that many xboxes) -
No, it has 4. 2 orange and 2 green.
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I'm not a cable guy
but from what I know Cat 3 has 4 pairs just like cat 5 has but only two are used. The difference between Cat 5 and Cat 3 would be the operational frequency of 16MHz for Cat 3 and up to 100 MHz for Cat 5.
Anyway- for all I know there is no cable that has 3 cables.
Isn't the cable sold with Xbox a crossover cable? -
It will have 4 wires in it, ( 2 pairs ) orange and green if using the 568-A or 568-B, format. Lots of the cheapo cables will only have 2 of 4 pairs actually in it.
Pins 1,2,3 and 6 are used for 10BT and 100 BTX ethernet, the green pair (568- B ) is transmit + & - , orange is recieve + & -
for 1000 base all 4 pairs are used
http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html
FYI in your 8 conductor 10 and 100 cables you CAN power devices ( POE ), run a phone line or even a second network link through the extra 2 pairs, as long as you are familiar with data cabling and the pinouts.
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Really, the number of wires used does not identify the the category of cable. I've got a piece of category 3 cable in my hand and it has 6 wires. It is intended for use for multi-line phone systems, hence I suspect, the extra two wires.
Digging through an old box, I found another cat3 cable with four wires.
I think the lesson I have learned is that the amount of wires used is not the determining factor, but the bandwitdh supported. Still wondering what the OP's cable is, though -
the CAT rating had more to do with bandwidth, resistance and maximum run length then the number of conductors within the cables.
I am quite certain the OP has a 4 conductor CAT 5, and the company that mfg'd the cables for MS just skimped on the copper to save money as those extra 3 conductors are NOT needed for 10/100 -
Sorry guys, my bad, I didn't take a good enough look before.
The cable does have 4 wires(2GreenWhite+2OrangeWhite)
BTW this is the MS ethernet cable that comes with the xbox elite.
Thanks for educating me. -
hey anytime, and enjoy that new found knowledge to confuse your friends
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...But I guess you can look at it either way. Someone is saving!
xbox ethernet cable
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by mogger, Mar 21, 2010.