Lemme explain what he means a little bit more.
Data only travels on wires 1,2,3, and 6, and if you used the 586B standard, it’s the orange pair, and green pair.
Substitute a known working pair for the damaged pair on both ends. Say brown works in your case. The end should end up as follows:
Light Orange, Orange, Light Brown, Blue, Light Blue, Brown, Light Green, Green.
That should work for you, provided it’s only one wire that got jacked up.
exactly:beer:
Ok, gotcha. For whatever reason I was thinking the other 2 pairs were used to determine status or give the Link state.
I know for certain that only the green wire is damaged. I’ll switch it around with the brown pairs and custom wire it and hope it works.
it’ll work, if it doesn’t, you did something wrong. trust me
Keep us posted.
ask whitey… his whole fios setup is afro engineered
Our entire office’s network is as well, sadly.
cutting corners is exactly what I was trying to avoid. Before the remodel job was done I did the wiring in this office and was not happy running everything randomly in the drop ceiling. I talked him into this so it wasn’t half assed.
I will probably get down there this weekend to test it out.
When we moved into our office, all the drywall and remodeling had been done, so there wasn’t much we could do but randomly run shit through the drop ceiling.
And that is exactly what makes running cable in an office so great.:bigthumb:
Well the renovation was way behind as usual. I finally got in there this weekend and swapping the brown and green pairs worked perfectly. Thanks guys.
I did run into a problem with a run of telephone lines at a different outlet. The dude hanging drywall must of run a screw through my lines because they were all sheared somewhere. I ran a new line under the floor and got it working… just cost the owner an extra 2 hours. 
just saw this thread but what everybody told you do was the easyiest solution, had this been a certified network you would be running new cable, as for the sniffer i have a real good one but it would not help you find a break. you would know what you already knew and that is where the wire is the only other option would be a TDR. time domain reflection tool, basically you put it on one end it sends a signal out untill it sinces a break and then it tells you normally with in an inch or 2 where that break is… these are extremly expensive and on a 40 ft run you would be better off runnign a new one
BTW using “big staples that you put in with a hammer” is very detrimental to providing a good network over CAT5. If you hammer the staples in so far that they hold the cable tight, you create a macro bend in the wire and can seriously limit speed on that particular run.
As grnteg98 stated you can use any four of the wires, so long as they are attached to pins 1,2,3, and 6. This will work for speeds up to 100 Mb. This particular network segment will never be used for GigE, as GigE requires all 8 wires.
Well let me add that the staples had the plastic protector/bridge thing with them. I know it’s not ideal, but it was convenient and doesn’t pinch the wire as much as compresses it (if you whack em in too hard).
It will most likely be entirely remodeled again before this guy updates to anything in the gigabit range. He would probably go wireless anyways. He likes buying stuff with hot buzz words in the marketing…
Glad to hear it worked.