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Unshielded Twisted Pair or UTP is a set of 4 pairs of wires with each wire

in a pair being twisted around the other to prevent electromagnetic interference.

As an example notice here, we have a twisted pair.

4 pairs make up the UTP used in Ethernet.

Each wire has a color coded plastic insulation

and the wires are inside and outer jacket.

In an Ethernet environment the wires connected to RJ-45 connector as shown here.

The advantage of UTP or Untwisted Pair, is it's the less expenses and easier to install

than other cabling implementation such as shielded twisted pair or coaxial cable. 10

There are various categories of UTP which wie'll talk about in a moment. 11

The maximum distance is a 100 meters without the use of the signal regeneration device 12

such as a hub or switch, so this is the type of cabling you'll probably encounter 13

many, many times in your networking career, UTP uses RJ-45 connectors. 14

So let�s talk about the pin positions on an RJ-45 connector. 15

There are 2 main implementations which are T568A and T568B 16

and there's a slight difference with the pairing of cablings in each implementation, 17

TIA/EIA-568 was develop to define standards for telecommunications cabling systems 18

EIA is the Electronic Industries Alliance and is a standard base organization. 19

TIA/EIA-568C attempts to define structured cabling standard. 20

So the difference between A and B is the pairing of cabling. 21

Notice in A white green stripe and green solid are connected to pins 1 and 2 22

whereas in B white orange stripe and solid orange are connected to 1 and 2. 23

So there are several differences between the cabling 24

of orange and green in 568A and 568B. 25

Now this will make no difference as both configurations 26

wire the pin straight through. 27

In other words pin 1 goes to pin 1 onn both sides of the cable 28

pin 2 goes to pin 2 and so forth and so on. 29

So notice on pin 1 its white green in 568A but it's white orange in 568B. 30

The most popular implementation tends to be B, but it will make no difference 31

which one is use as long as both sides are connected straight through. 32

Now you could purchase pre-made cables or you may decide to cramp your own cables. 33

Pre-made cables tend to be more expensive but have the advantage that they�ve been 34

tested as well as the advantage that you don�t have to make them yourself. 35

Cramping cables yourself is cheaper 36

and you can make your cables for the length that you require. 37

When cramping your own cables you need to separate each individual colored wire 38

in the right order and then stick each colored wire 39

into the appropriate slot on the RJ-45 connector. 40

You then use the cramping tool to cramp the wire and finally don�t forget 41

to make sure that you test your cable to ensure that you've cramp it correctly. 42

The straight through cable is a type of twisted pair copper cable 43

which you're going to find very often in Local Area Network or LANs. 44

In a standard straight through cable each pin of the connector on one end 45

is connected to the corresponding pin on the other connector. 46

In other words pin 1 on the MDI device, in this case a PC 47

is connected to pin 1 on an MDIX device which in this case is a hub. 48

Pin 2 connects to pin 2, pin 3 to pin 3 and so forth and so on. 49

MDI or Media Independent Interface is an Ethernet port connections typically use 50

on Network Interface Card or NICs of PCs. 51

MDI is also use by routers and can be used on uplink ports on Ethernet switches. 52

On certain older switches you�ll see a button normally on the uplink port 53

that allows you to change how that port operates. 54

So you can change the mode from MDI to MDIX or back again. 55

This allows you to connect 1 switch to another switch using a straight through cable 56

rather than using a crossover cable which I'll mention in a moment. 57

So in the past, you may have connected your PC to a hub 58

such as this 2 using a straight through cable. 59

Now straight through cables are used in situations where you connect 60

the PC to a switch or a PC to a bridge, or q PC to a hub. 61

I�m gonna explain how this devices work in a moment 62

and the differences between a hub, bridge and switch 63

but from a cabling point of view 64

you would use a straight through cable from your PC to one of this devices. 65

In the past when connecting devices of the same type 66

such as 2 PCs or 2 routers, a crossover cable would be used. 67

So in this case rather than a pins being straight they crossed. 68

So in this example, we have 2 MDI devices in other words 2 PCs 69

which need to communicate and thus a crossover cable would be required. 70

This is an example for 10Base-T or 100Base-TX. 71

In this example pins 4, 5, 7 and 8 are not used but notice pin 1 is crossed with pin 3 72

pin 2 with pin 6, pin 3 with pin 1 and pin 6 with pin 2 73

in other words the TX or transmit and RX or receive are correctly cabled 74

so that TX+ is connected to RX+ and so forth and so on. 75

Pins 4, 5, 7 and 8 are configured in the straight through format 76

but are unused in this example.