Strathead
Senior Member
- Location
- Ocala, Florida, USA
- Occupation
- Electrician/Estimator/Project Manager/Superintendent
My understanding (I'm a hack) is that the lack of twists causes errors in the ones and zeroes. There are always errors but the actual twist of the wires is done to minimize these. The more errors the "slower " the data. Many here are more knowledgeable than me on this, so please chime in if I am incorrect, or inaccurate.unless they are not electrically/mechanically minded at all, they likely realize each conductor has a proper location to land, I think it is less likely they will know they should maintain twist as much as possible, even some that do a fair amount of electrical work likely don't realize this or why.
you can get away with not maintaining the twist and other things they don't recommend, but it potentially lessens max data speeds. A wrong termination position leaves it not working at all most the time.