I know exactly what you are dealing with here. This is NOT progress, this is how to make it cheaper and charge more money for the same thing.

I only wish, just one time, the person or people responsible for making the insulation "translucent" (translation: IMPOSSIBLE to see the color code) be placed in a dimly lit wiring closet and made to terminate 100 of those 4 pair cables. If they get the colors wrong, a switch gets thrown and a neon sign transformer, connected to their neither parts, gets energized!

I wonder how that would change their opinion of the lousy insulation colors?

Rcaman

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