Phone 8 wire cable for ethernet network

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I have phone 8 wire cable, shielded, with no pairs (wires go along to each other, no twisting).

I wonder if I can use this cable for wiring an Ethernet network?

Wires in the cable are in the following colors:

white green blue red brown grey orange yellow

I presume the problem with this cable is because the wires are not pair twisted and that's why to many interferences happen. Am I right?


UPDATE:

I have done some tests. I have connected very short cable (cca. 0,5m) and the network works fine at 1Gbps. I think the performance would dramatically decrease with the length of this cable, as I saw with 15m cable that is not working, router just blinking (as it try to establish the connection).

Best Answer

Yes, you are right. The lack of twisting will make your cable very noisy. I would not expect your network cards to connect at anything higher than 100Mbit and in some cases might even go to 10Mbit. Silver satin (8 wire no twisting) was sometimes, though incorrectly, used in 10Mbit applications

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