Saturday, November 17, 2018

A technical question about Cat6 cables (and probably many other types of twisted pair cables)

So, as I understand it, in a Cat6 cable we have four twisted pairs - positive and negative conductors for, let's call them, lines 1, 2, 3 and 4. My question is, how does the switching device (switch/router/whatever) decide what goes down each line (twisted pair) within the cable? Is it all just split up randomly and equally between them? How 'deeply' are they split, like do individual packets get split up or do packets always stay as a single piece?



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