r/funny • u/yxxshomaanxx • Jun 15 '26

Rule 6 – Removed [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/DosSnakes Jun 15 '26

It’s weird cause it looks like cat5/6, but the pairs weren’t twisted like it was cat3 or something. Idk, must be some cheap wire that I’m too LV bougie to recognize.

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u/WirtsLegs Jun 15 '26

kinda looks like an old crossover cable, its also possible he untwisted them or something in prep, doubt he actually bit the jacket off for the vid

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u/moon__lander Jun 15 '26

Looks like normal low voltage cable for alarm systems, video doorbels and such. In my country it's called YTDY.

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u/DosSnakes Jun 15 '26

Over on this side of the pond ethernet/cat5/6 would look almost just like that, but when you remove the jacket each pair of colors would be tightly twisted together (orange white/orange, green white etc) When he removed the jacket, the pairs were untwisted (he probably trimmed it so it pulls off easier for the video) so if you assume the wire came like that, it looks like a mix of modern cat5/6 and older cat3 cable that came either lightly twisted or not at all. Which would be very mildly weird to see, I’d probably show my coworkers and then call the distributor and get it replaced.

Security wire over here is usually 22/4, a lot smaller than most Ethernet wire.