Cat5 cable and crimp tool

[CaptainOblivious]

hey guys...i have a bunch of cat5e connectors...a bunch of raw network cable..and a crimp tool....i need to make a few cables that will connect my computer to my router...and every time i've found a wire order diagram online the cable doesnt work...i've tried this link

http://www.tomax7.com/aplus/APlusCD/cat5.htm

and i cant seem to get it to work...also...both of the ends need to be the exact same as the other when it comes to wiring correct?..as always..thanks so much for the help!

[office politics]

those instructions seem correct. when you hold the two ends together, side-by-side, and pointing in the same direction, the wires should repeat the same pattern from left to right.

you need to be sure to get a straight even cut and to jam the wires all the way to the contacts on the connector.

you may want to pick up a cable tester as well.

[Zac_Cutt]

I had tried making Cat5E cables before and it was horrible. It never worked. I was using a $60 crimper that I bought at Canadian tire. When one of my electrician friends came over, he lent me his good $200-250 crimper. The first time I tried it worked perfectly. Then I compared a cable done with the cheap one and one done with the old one and they were exactly the same however on the one done with the good crimper works. I have since been using this one and have never had it not work. Where as the other one it was atleast 9/10 failure rate. It does not seem like a crimper would make a large difference; but bleieve me it does.

How much was your crimper?

Zac

[office politics]

dunno. school always supplied.

[superdave1984]

I agree with office politics. I have found that after you get the wires arranged in the proper order, take your cutters and make a straight cut, then slide them in the RJ-45. Also, unless you are possibly going to do any changing to your network in the future or somebody else will, it really doesn't matter what order the wires are in as long as you are consistant. BUT the next guy won't know that. I worked for a place that ran their own cable for their networking and the color order was simply alphabetic. Blue, blue tracer, brown, brown tracer, etc. And I have a $20 crimper I got at Lowe's. Works great. Get the little black flat slider thingys too. They make it much easier to line up the wires.

[Bruce]

I always go orange white, orange,green white, blue, blue white, green, brown white, brown.

as long as it's the same on both ends it shouldn't matter what order u use.

[LA1]

I always go orange white, orange,green white, blue, blue white, green, brown white, brown.

THAT'S 468A

actually 468B is the same instead the rolls of the green and the orange are switched

...it is always the 3rd and 6th wire no matter which color.
thiis is with the opening of the connector facing you and the clip on the connector facing the floor.

What I do is if it is remove about 8 - 9 inches of the jacketing
untwist the wire pairs, keepin each color in a pair
I take my thumb and forefinger and pull one wire through @ a time
to streighten the wires out, still keeping in color pairs.

then i throw the cable up on the desk
in my right hand my thumb and forefinger start out clamping the
o/w, o,
sometimes you still have to pull single wires to get them streight
while you are building, the wires sort of look like a ribbon cable
sometimes to get slight bends out i will grasp above and below where i want to streighten like i was holding a ribbon cable and move my hands back and forth, so the wires go in an "s" in one direction then another , moving the wires latterly not up and down. Then with my $19 crimper I cut the wires so the are slightly shorter then the connector so the crimp part is on the cable jacket ,,,, VOILA

[shortstop20]

Originally posted by LA1
THAT'S 468A

actually 468B is the same instead the rolls of the green and the orange are switched

568B. 568A is green white, green, etc.

[LA1]

ok , was going by memory. The important idea though, to come away with is that it is the 3rd and 6th wires with either the green or orange sets.