Typically the wire lengths inside an Ethernet cable are all relatively equal. I know there must be some slight variance between the length of the individual wires inside cable due to some twisting around more than others but what about lengths greater than 1 meter? Do length differences between pairs of wires only matter at that point or do all have to be relatively the same length in order for the cable to function properly?
The main reason why I ask this is because I have a strange scenario where I have 2 Ethernet cables going from my network closet inside the house to the a network box outside the house (where ISPs can connect to it). Each of the 2 cables have wires inside them that aren't functioning properly so I can't use them individually but between all the wires between the 2 cables, I should be able to frankenstein a "single cable". In this scenario, the two cables forming a single cable should be roughly the same length but, depending on how everything is routed through the walls, the wire lengths between this frankenstein'd cable could vary by a few meters.
Would the cable function the same as any other cable or would timings of the signals or some other phenomena make this function not work as expected?
