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by disposablename 4102 days ago
Ethernet uses differential signaling, a pair of wires transmits the positive and negative sides of the signal. When interference hits the twisted pair, it affects both signals the same way, and the effect is cancelled out.

If you try to use two wires from different pairs for one signal, you lose this property because now the wires are further apart, and possibly worse, twisted with another signal.