Is this old CW1308 cable?

The incoming line I have is 4 cores which are blue, brown, green and orange. From stripping it back it doesn't look particularly twisted either. Should I be asking for the cable to be upgraded? Would it make a difference? Many thanks.

Most �BT� cable doesn�t have an especially high twist on the pairs.

What problem are you looking to solve ? If it�s just an increase in sync rate, then highly unlikely that replacing a couple of metres of internal two pair with cat5 is going to make much difference.

Hi Zarjaz - thanks for your reply. Having swapped filters and other cables over the last few weeks I have seen my noise margin go up over 2db (now at 9.6db) and my attenuation drop slightly (now at 19.3db) so I was wondering if changing the cable would further benefit my stats with a view to getting the maximum speed my line would support when I upgrade to a faster fibre package. Thanks.

P.S. I originally had the blue core connected to slot A in the master socket and the orange core to slot B. Swapping them over raised my snr a touch. Does it matter which way round they are connected?

Edited by giggsy1977 (Sun 05-Aug-18 07:41:08)

That's the thing, if you are not achieving a max sync rate for the product, and that the service is not capped in some way, every retrain will provide a marginally different set of stats ..... dropping sync too frequently may have the undesired side affect of remote monitoring perceiving it as a fault and your service being capped.

I originally had the blue core connected to slot A in the master socket and the orange core to slot B. Swapping them over raised my snr a touch. Does it matter which way round they are connected?

Nope.

Thanks for taking the time to respond Zarjaz, much appreciated.

In reply to a post by giggsy1977:

The incoming line I have is 4 cores which are blue, brown, green and orange. From stripping it back it doesn't look particularly twisted either. Should I be asking for the cable to be upgraded? Would it make a difference? Many thanks.

They won't replace it. It's simply the older colours. It wouldn't improve your sync either.

Thanks for the input John - appreciated.

May not even be that old John, internal two pair has had those colours for going on ten years I�d guess.