> On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Wayne Johnson wrote: > Cat3's actually a different grade of wire, it's just like Cat5 (8 > wires), just less twists per inch. I actually think you can get 2-pair > Cat3/Cat5, but the more common is 4-pair. you can get 2-pair wire that has enough twists to be used for ethernet, but iirc for it to be cat-5 and for it to certified as such it has to be 4-pair -munir