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There is NOTHING more annoying than spending 30 minutes debugging a network problem to find it was the CABLE. Badly MADE or non-standard cabling is a foolish thing ...
This is an old LINK, but if you need it, you need it.
http://www.zytrax.com/tech/layer_1/cables/tech_lan.htm
Somewhat along the same topic, if you are going to buy bulk cable and make your own connectors:

DON'T BUY CHEAP CABLE!!!!

I've made hundreds of connectors and generally had a 90 to 95 % SUCCESS rate.  A tech that worked for me and made many times more connectors than I did probably had a 99% success rate.

He bought a 1,000' roll of cable for about half what we usually paid and we both had a 90% failure rate.  We ended up throwing out the remaining cheap cable, bought a good roll and were back on track.


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