Cat 5, 5e, 6, 6a, 7, 8

There are 8 color coded wires. These wires are twisted into 4 pairs of wires, each pair has a common color theme. One wire in the pair being a solid or primarily solid colored wire and the other being a primarily white wire with a colored stripe (Sometimes cheap cable doesn't have any color on the striped cable, the only way to tell is to check which other wire it is twisted around). Examples of the naming schemes used are Orange (alternatively Orange/White) for the solid-colored wire and White/Orange for the striped cable. Read More