Advice needed on making Cat5e patch cable

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I've just made a hole through a wall to run a Cat5e cable and I need to buy about 10 metres of cable along with the RJ45 connectors and a crimping tool thingy.

So far the only 10m cable i've found to buy is pre-patched which wont fit through the hole and i'm wondering how easy it easy to remove them so i can feed the cable through and then put some new ones on.

Lastly, how important is it to buy a good quality crimp tool rather one of the cheap ones for £5 or whatever? I probably wont use the thing again so i'd rather avoid spending £20 on one.

Thanks
 
10m will be more than enough for me and i'd rather go with cat5e because it'll look neater when run along the skirting.

By pre-ended I assume mean a cable that already has the rj45 connectors on them? I want to keep the hole in the wall as small as possible which means running the cable through without connectors on them and then add them afterwards.
 
Nothing stops you buying a pre-terminated 10m cable and cutting one of the ends off to get it through the hole, then just recrimp once it's through.

A quality crimping tool just gives more peace of mind as it will generally crimp better and more evenly, not saying it would but a cheaper tool can sometimes miss or not fully push down the ends so you end up re crimping multiple times with the same outcome.

If it's being used once then go for a £5 job.
 
Goose said:
I've just made a hole through a wall to run a Cat5e cable and I need to buy about 10 metres of cable along with the RJ45 connectors and a crimping tool thingy.

So far the only 10m cable i've found to buy is pre-patched which wont fit through the hole and i'm wondering how easy it easy to remove them so i can feed the cable through and then put some new ones on.

Lastly, how important is it to buy a good quality crimp tool rather one of the cheap ones for £5 or whatever? I probably wont use the thing again so i'd rather avoid spending £20 on one.

Thanks
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If you're just doing the job once then a cheap crimp tool will do. Make sure that the cable you buy is non copper clad aluminimum and is solid core twisted pair cable. Some companies sell good quality cable by the metre or you can get some off cuts from a networking job of ebay.
 
Would this cable do for my purposes?

I've no idea if i should be buying shielded or unshielded, solid or stranded etc.
 
You don't need/want shielded cable.

If you're crimping plugs onto the cable you'd usually use stranded. If it's a professionally made patch cord you're chopping up you should find that it's stranded cable.

If you're punching down into faceplates then you definitely want solid core.
 
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