The whole wire is un-shielded, like this one.
These 10 wires are insulated individually and are not twisted.
I read somewhere that it's a standard communication cable.
Networking – Can a 22 gauge 10 conductor multi-core wire be used in a home Ethernet implementation? What will be the data rate/range on this setup
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UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair -- Similar to a phone line) is what we use today, The different categories of UTP usually represent how much data (bandwidth) it can handle per unit time (basically a measure of quality). I'm almost positive RJ45 is what the connector is called for standard UTP cat 5 and 6. 100Base-Tx, I think mean 100mb/s speed, baseband, and UTP wire. 100Base-Tx, is a standard for networks. It implies what kind of category wiring can be used. Baseband refers to how data is transfered over the wire. There is baseband (which transfers one signal at a time), and broadband (like cable television -- that transfers many)
Twisted pair refers to how the wires are paired inside the cable, exclusive of everything else related to them.
Referring to the comment below, such as getting the wire in straight form, this has different meaning. This has to do with how the ends of the wires are connected to the plug (RJ45). Depending on whether you are connecting two computers together (you would use a cross over cable) or a computer to a networking device (standard cable). Everything about the wire, as far as I know, is the same, except for how the wires are connected to the plug.
A fix can work, but not at full range. The reason is that at full range you will need all wires for power. On shorter range you can only use 2 and it is enough. You then have 2 to reallocate in case of other bad wires, like your 6th.
So what you can do is replace/swap the pair with 6th wire with let's say the pair with 7th and 8th (on both ends) and disable the pair with 5th to balance your PoE. So you will have 1-2-3-6 for data again, and keep 4-7 for PoE +/-.
To simplify things, if you use T568-A just replace the data orange pair with the brown one to use for data and if you use T568-B standard, just replace the green pair with the brown one. Then allocate the remaining wire for power instead of the ones from the brown pair.
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That will work very badly, if at all.
I actually tried this many years ago by using 4-wire non-shielded and non-twisted cable (also 22 AWG) instead of a regular CAT5.
In theory, you only need 4 wires for 10/100 Mb/s so I had a chance it would work.
Well, it did, sort of, but not good enough to be usable.
I was able to get signal across over about 10 meters maximum, but the network cards wouldn't auto-negotiate AT ALL.
I had to manually set the interfaces on both ends to 10 Mb/s and half-duplex. Even then I lost more than 60% of the network packets to transmission errors.
With a lot of luck and prayer, I was able to get a very unreliable 3 to 4 Mb/s over the cable.
Don't even bother trying. I can promise you a lot of wasted effort and frustration if you do.