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I think I’ll just match colors as far as I can:

1 White

2 Grey

3 Yellow

4 Blue

5 Pink

6 Orange

7 Purple

8 Brown

Then I basically only need to remember that Grey is Green, and otherwise just use the colors as I’m used to.

Apparently an old-style French phone cable. For phone uses, it is:

1 grey

2 transparent/pink

3 white

4 brown

5 blue

6 yellow

7 purple

8 orange

Looks like that pairing is unsuitable for Ethernet, so I’ll use something else.

Now that I know this cable is called PTT-298, I found that apparently lots of people managed to get 1 Gb/s Ethernet working on it.

What do you mean by “stupid cheap”? I don’t see that happening soon; I guess we’ll have to wait until the Ampere One becomes available and companies replace and sell their old Altras.

Do you think systems based on the ASRock ALTRAD8UD-1L2T (like this NAS) will be cheaper than the Ampere Altra Dev Kit (AADK)?

Well it is twisted pair. From where the ends are, it most likely is no longer than 8m, so I assume that even with sub-par specs it will just work. It is at a friend’s place, and we want to avoid opening up the wall here.

I was just wondering if maybe there is some official color code translation, so I could go with the principle of least surprise.

The pairs are grey/white, blue/pink, brown/purple, orange/yellow.

There is one twist per 1.5 cm.