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DATE | 2015-03-03 |
FROM | Rick Moen
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SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] cable crimping
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From owner-hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue Mar 3 18:00:13 2015 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Delivered-To: archive-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) id C1FF4161185; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:00:12 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-outgoing-at-mrbrklyn.com Received: by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix, from userid 28) id AE9A416118F; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:00:12 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Received: from linuxmafia.com (linuxmafia.COM [198.144.195.186]) by mrbrklyn.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE951161185 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 17:59:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from rick by linuxmafia.com with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YSvn1-0005E9-BY for hangout-at-nylxs.com; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:59:47 -0800 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 14:59:47 -0800 From: Rick Moen To: hangout-at-nylxs.com Subject: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] cable crimping Message-ID: <20150303225947.GP23366-at-linuxmafia.com> References: <54F630D1.7070209-at-panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <54F630D1.7070209-at-panix.com> Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. X-Mas: Bah humbug. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: rick-at-linuxmafia.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxmafia.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: hangout-at-nylxs.com [NYLXS: HANGOUT] X-BeenThere: hangout-at-nylxs.com X-Mailing-list: hangout-at-nylxs.com Precedence: list List-Id: NYLXS General Discussion Forum List-Unsubscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe:
Quoting Ruben Safir (mrbrklyn-at-panix.com):
> Paul, I need you to come to the house and crimp a cable for me. Infact, > you can show me how to do it.
After he shows you classic TIA 568A and 568B cable wiring configurations, buy yourself an ideal Industries Crimpmaster. http://www.amazon.com/Ideal-30-522-Crimpmaster¿-Crimper/dp/B0009WABT4
You can also buy die sets for them, in case you want to do things other than RJ-45, such as RJ-11 (telco) and other things.
Don't settle for any lesser crimping tool. There's a lot of them out there that just suck.
Also: Get a big bag of RJ-45 ends and practice with them -- because it takes some practice before you stop making dud cables. Once you've gotten the knack, you can then turn out reliable ethernet cables with no problem.
Also#2: If buying new ethernet cable, spring for CAT6E. (Yes, even though officially no such spec exists, it nonetheless de-facto does.) I make no apologies over my still working on using up the 1000' spool of CAT5 I bought in 1997, but wouldn't _think_ of buying more of it.
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