Need the name of the cable with red end and yellow other end.

[MATTHEWATLANT0S]

Hello,

I have a BT smart Hub 2 router, I need to replace the cable that has one red end and the other end is yellow, I cannot remember what the cable is called.

Can someone let me know.

Thanks

[caravanj]

Ethernet cable would be my guess, although I've never seen one with different coloured plugs on the same cable myself.

[licquorice]

Ethernet cable, the colours are irrelevant.

[MATTHEWATLANT0S]

It is the cable that goes in the WAN socket on the back of the router.

Thanks

[licquorice]

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[caravanj]

@MATTHEWATLANT0S 

Ah, that's the socket my white cable with the two white plugs goes into but, as your question asked, they're both called Ethernet cables.

Actually, in the network installation trade, the Ethernet cables with coloured plugs that match routers with coloured sockets are sometimes called 'dummy' cables.

[WSH]

Cat (category) 5e twisted pair cable.  Cat 6 will also do.

What everyone calls “Ethernet cable” is actually an ambiguous term, as Ethernet can be carried by several different cable types.

As licquorice pointed out, the colour (ends or otherwise) is irrelevant.

[licquorice]

Exactly so,  conversely Cat5e/Cat6 cables can be used for other purposes rather than transporting Ethernet. I guess it's akin to vacuum cleaners being called hoovers.