[ale] Cat-5 question

[H P Ladds]

Spread out and give yourself some room to work. No need to work as if your a
mouse nibbling on cheese. Allow the cable to lay flat for 3 feet+. Lay the
cable in an orientation that diminishes its tendency to twist -- don't fight
with the cable as you are working on it.

Strip about 2" , get the wire's flat and in order, then trim all wires to
length.

Don't be afraid to keep pushing the cable into the connector until all of
the wires have reached the end -- sometimes this takes a bit of massaging.

A tester is a time saver.







On 4/9/06, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>
> Boy, oh boy, do I need some help.
> Needed to string more Cat-5 cable under the house. Had to chop off
> one plug to get the wire through the holes already bored in the
> house's structure. ("She who must be consulted" has ruled that no
> more half-inch holes may be bored in walls or floors.)
> So how do I attach a new rj-45 plug to the cable?
>
> I have the crimper and a handful of the plugs. But I have tried
> and tried and I can not get all eight tiny wires inside the plug,
> nicely lined up in their proper grooves, and shoved all the way
> to the end -- that's the really tricky part.
>
> I got close enough once to actually get the green light on the
> ethernet card to blink rapidly for about 10 seconds before it gave
> up.  Either there is some trick tool I don't own that makes this
> job easier, or I need the hands and eyesight of a 12-year-old
> Persian rug maker.
>
> Are all eight wires actually used?
>
> How do people do this who do it for a living?
>
> Sean
>
>
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