Advantage of twisted

Answer 1

If your referring to cat5, cat5e, cat6 wire, what you have is two wires that carry voltage, when voltage travels on wire it creates a magnetic field around the wire, you have two wires that carries voltages and both wires are creating a magnetic field... then you have eddy currents... take two magnetic and bring them close together and you disturb there magnetic fields or crossing of eddy currents as you disturb there magnetic field you feel the resistance or how it becomes harder to bring them closer together. The resistance of the magnetic fields is the same on two conductors they resist flow. So if you twist the two pairs together somehow it helps to cancel or reduce the repulsion of the fields and allow the voltage to flow better or more efficiently. the tighter or more twist per length the better.

Answer 2

What Are Two Advantages of Using Twisted Pair Cabling Over Coaxial Cabling on a Network?

By Frank Gates, eHow Contributor | updated December 20, 2011

Twisted pair and coaxial cables are types of network cable. Another type is fiber optic cable. The primary job of network cables is to transport data over a network. A network may consist of a computer to a router, a router to a peripheral device such as a printer, or a router to another router. It is essential that data is not corrupted by outside interferences, such as electromechanical interference (EMI) or radio frequency interference (RFI). Another important component of transmission cables is their ability to transfer data quickly. The faster the network can perform, the more data it can move, and the happier the network users will be.

Answer 3

UTP and STP are twisted cables, the advantage of this is: it cancels out some of the electrical interference.