I've been given a bag full of Networking cables, some of which are cisco isdn cables and others are standard network leads (that's what I've been told). The question is how do I tell the difference between the two as they all have the same plugs on them ?

Hi Ian, the first pic is the isdn, the 2nd pic is the standard cat 5 cable

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Edit: oops misread the question

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Thanks for the pictures D__ .
All the cables have Cat 5 plugs but some appear to have all 8 pins connected to their little coloured wires and some have only the middle 4 connected. I'm presuming they have differing uses

Isn't 4 pins phone line or something?

From what i can decipher from here> CAT-5 Wiring cat5 network cables have 4 pairs of wires and like Darklord says 4 is phone line

This is what's confusing me, because phone cables have the smaller RJ11 plug and all the leads I've been given have the larger RJ45 plugs on