This has been tested on the new Dishy Cable in 2025
I was doing some testing on the new Dishy Cable at my house, once testing was done, I was left with a Starlink cable that sent for testing and since I didn’t feel like fishing it back through conduit for reuse I decided to rewire it. I knew that it was actually an Ethernet cable with special ends. What I was not aware of is that it also uses a different color code. So, after I cut the cable, I realized that the color code was not going to work, even the pairs it uses on the RJ45 on the dishy side were laid out different. My first attempt was a failure, so I did a wire map using my tester and it was way off.
So now what? My process was fairly simple I first looked at my tester and it showed me the pins that were wrong. I wrote down the color code that I had initially wired taking a chance that it would work. That’s when I found out that the cable on the Dishy side was wired differently which caused the initial failure. I went to ChatGPT and typed in the current color code on the jack I had provisioned and asked it to tell me the pin color pinout. This got me closer, but I had a couple of reverse pins that I had to fix. This got me the final pinout on the router side that I could wire into a RJ45 wall jack.
I know that others are probably in the same boat, maybe it’s not a huge use case but as rural internet is starting to roll out using fiber I figured this would help others get better coverage on their property and keep some of the rework to a minimum. I decided to keep the RJ45 on the Dishy side and plug it into an outdoor AP. The cable is built well, it looks like CAT5 since its missing the plastic insert that CAT6 has but all in all its outdoor rated and for my use case it worked well.
The pinout and color code are below if you choose to use the existing Dishy RJ45 as I did. All in all the color doesn’t matter a whole lot on shorter runs especially at the ends. The cable tested at 1Gig and the performance is as expected.
1 – Blue
2 – White
3 – Dark Green
4 – Purple
5 – Light Brown
6 – Light Green
7 – Brown
8 – Gray
Another cool thing I use is this for my Gen2 Dishy so that I can run it over CAT6. This comes in handy if you have existing CAT6 cabling that you want to repurpose. This version is out of stock, but this is a similar version. Dishy Conversion to CAT6 I make no claim that it will work for you, but it has saved me quite a bit of time and frustration.
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