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Crimping Ethernet Cable
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Posted by: Airdawg10
THE FOLLOWING IS BACKGROUND BUT IS NOT VITAL TO THE QUESTION. YOU CAN SKIP THE NEXT 3 PARAGRAPHS AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE QUESTION IF YOU WISH!
I just laid down 25' of ethernet cable in a conduit underground. Upon coving the thing back up, I went to put the caps on either end. When this was done i hooked my computer up and guess what... nothing happened. The cable is brand new and I doubt that's the problem. I think I crimped it wrong on one end or the other... this is what I did
One end is going directly to a router. The other end is going to a jack in the wall.
I bought a "mix 'n match" faceplate (for the wall) and the coorespoding Cat5e jack. (can be seen here) As you can see from the picture, there are two color-coded diagrams and one set of numbers to help you put the right wires in the right slots. On the side going to the jack, I followed the top color codes. Since I couldn't find a similar product to the one I just linked to that wasn't female, I just bought two of those things and put one on either end (again, following the top color diagram) and then connected a 1' ethernet cable (which I've checked and is ok) to the female jack and to the router.
MY QUESTIONS ARE THIS:
1) If you use the same color codes on either end fo the cable to connect it to the same jack, it doesn't matter which order the colors go in (as long as they're in the same order on either end), right?
2) Is there some type of program for download that will, or maybe a way Windows can, check the wires connection and see if some and which of them reach the router? Maybe one wire is bad underground or something....
Thanks in advance for your help!
Posted by: Airdawg10
Well, well well.... I fixed my own problem. Upon studying the color codes a bit closer, I noticed that two of the wires appeared to be touching copper to copper... After prying the two wires away from one another, the connection works fine.. in fact I'm using it right now :-D
Thanks OTS anyway, it's a great forum...
Posted by: Zakir
that would do it!
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