Best/quickest way to crimp Cat cable?

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

hartgeh3

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Hi all,
having the house sorted out with cat 6 ethernet in each room but need to sort out each end. What is the best way to sort the cables out, tools, testing etc? I have about 14 to sort out..
Cheers
 
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Shouldn't be crimping anything you need a push down tool to terminate the ends in patch panel/face plate. Never used a tester fairly self evident if its working on not, either doesn't work or only connects at 100mb vs works at 1gb.
 
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I need the connectors the other end to connect to a switch though.
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It depends, the professional way I guess is to terminate your wiring into a face plate located near your switch, then use a little pre made network cable (called patch cable) to go as an in between.

I'm my scenario at home I used a bit of both, on the rooms where I wanted it neat I put it into face plates, but my switch is on a shelf in my pc room, and I routed my cables through the ceiling there from the loft, so I just terminated into an RJ45 then straight into the switch.

Whichever works for you.
 
Dg834man said:
Shouldn't be crimping anything you need a push down tool to terminate the ends in patch panel/face plate. Never used a tester fairly self evident if its working on not, either doesn't work or only connects at 100mb vs works at 1gb.
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Testers are great for identifying runs I find more than actually testing the connection.
 
hartgeh3 said:
Hi all,
having the house sorted out with cat 6 ethernet in each room but need to sort out each end. What is the best way to sort the cables out, tools, testing etc? I have about 14 to sort out..
Cheers
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Practice.

The most difficult thing, I think, is stripping the cable correctly, so buy a proper tool.

There is a dedicated tester on Amazon for £7.99 that is perfectly fine. Precivia, I think.
 
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Are you fitting a full width 19" cabinet? If so, fit a 24 port patch panel. They are cheap, and you can never have enough ethernet ports. 24 ports will give you plenty of room for expansion. Do not overlook the luxury of having reliable wired ethernet available around the house as you will soon outgrow it.

As has been said, faceplate at the 'room' end and patch panel at the switch end. Buy a punchdown tool to terminate them properly.

Crimping solid cable straight into RJ45 connectors is 'ok' if you're only doing a couple of connectors, but any more than that you should be using faceplates. If installing more than say 8 cables, a patch panel looks so much tidier than a myriad of socket boxes connecting into the switch.

Patch panel; https://www.comms-express.com/products/excel-24-port-cat6-patch-panel-1u-rj45-utp/

Double RJ45 socket; https://www.comms-express.com/products/2x-rj45-cat6-modules-in-singlegang-faceplate/
And backbox; https://www.comms-express.com/products/single-gang-surface-mount-back-box-32mm/

And something like this Krone/punchdown tool with integrated snips; https://www.comms-express.com/products/krone-style-idc-punch-down-tool/
 
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All the rooms have sockets and are wired. It is where all the wires come do to the room which not needs sorting.
The TPLink 24 Port switch and the Reolink NVR will be wall mounted to take up the least amount of space. Looking for a wall mounted patch panel, maybe a low profile one but they are £$£
 
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eBay item 195731228639 is worth a look to help with your wall mounting requirements :)

There are 4 and 6U versions available too.
 
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I got a plugs + crimper + tester kit off amazon when I needed to run some cable recently.

The tester was worth every penny, I had a single strand that wasn't seated fully in the slot on the socket, very easy to diagnose and fix.

A proper stripper and crimper is well worth it too if you're making any cables.
 
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