Hi,
I won't bore you with a long backstory but for various reasons I need to replace the telephone cable between my NTE5 socket and the IDC-type junction box connected to the drop cable where it enters my flat. Basically, therefore, I need to obtain a length (say 10 metres) of decent quality 4-core, twin-pair CW1308 cable. (Decent enough quality, that is, so that an Openreach engineer won't raise his eyebrows if he inspects the setup). My problem is reliably obtaining cable of the right quality/spec.
Several years ago I planned running an extension line from the NTE5 socket and bought a length of allegedly CW1308 cable from Maplins. On examination, this struck me as very poor stuff. The internal wires ran loosely in an outer covering that was more like a PVC tube than the kind of tight sheath covering I'd seen on other kinds of cable I'd handled. Stripping an 18 inch length showed the wires bunched in a very slow spiral (but that might have been an optical illusion!). The blue and orange pairs were certainly not organised in separate twisted pairs. This looked nothing like the cable pictured here for instance (ignoring the additional pairs):
http://www.hyperline.com/img/sharedimg/cable/cable1-2.jpg
So, to come to the point, if I order CW1308 4-core cable what should it look like, please, so that I can satisfy myself that it's genuine twisted pair.
Thanks for any help.
Joe
I won't bore you with a long backstory but for various reasons I need to replace the telephone cable between my NTE5 socket and the IDC-type junction box connected to the drop cable where it enters my flat. Basically, therefore, I need to obtain a length (say 10 metres) of decent quality 4-core, twin-pair CW1308 cable. (Decent enough quality, that is, so that an Openreach engineer won't raise his eyebrows if he inspects the setup). My problem is reliably obtaining cable of the right quality/spec.
Several years ago I planned running an extension line from the NTE5 socket and bought a length of allegedly CW1308 cable from Maplins. On examination, this struck me as very poor stuff. The internal wires ran loosely in an outer covering that was more like a PVC tube than the kind of tight sheath covering I'd seen on other kinds of cable I'd handled. Stripping an 18 inch length showed the wires bunched in a very slow spiral (but that might have been an optical illusion!). The blue and orange pairs were certainly not organised in separate twisted pairs. This looked nothing like the cable pictured here for instance (ignoring the additional pairs):
http://www.hyperline.com/img/sharedimg/cable/cable1-2.jpg
So, to come to the point, if I order CW1308 4-core cable what should it look like, please, so that I can satisfy myself that it's genuine twisted pair.
Thanks for any help.
Joe