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Even worse, the conductors within each pair were twisted ala CAT5e.

Whenever you see CAT3 with that kind of twist it's because the manufacturer had a bad batch of CAT5 that wouldn't pass the specs. So rather than scrap it they label and sell it as CAT3.

-Hal

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