Cat5 Cabling expert required.

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InvaderGIR said:
The idea of the RJ45 connectors is that you crimp them, when crimped the copper pins cut into the individual wires, you should not strip casing off the individual wires.

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Thats what i thought, but after my first attempt at wiring my house a few years back, the cables didnt work, so i broke off one of the connectors and saw that the wires wasnt making contact. so i strip the wires back just far enough so they make perfect contact, but not too far that they start touching other wires, and from then on, they work pefectly.
 
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Thats what i thought, but after my first attempt at wiring my house a few years back, the cables didnt work, so i broke off one of the connectors and saw that the wires wasnt making contact. so i strip the wires back just far enough so they make perfect contact, but not too far that they start touching other wires, and from then on, they work pefectly.
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Strange, never had that problem. Made loads of lengths of cables, and redone loads as well, never needed to strip the individual wires...just squeeze the crimper till my hands really hurt and it's completely shut/closed. :D

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must have been some dodgy connectors i had or something then, i just got the cheapest bits i could back then when i wired my house.
 
I did make a short patch cable using the tools mentioned above, and that also didn't work. This cable was only about 20 ft long.
 
As you are using solid core the cables are a bit stronger, so dont strip them at all.
Arrange them in the correct order, put in to RJ45 and push them as far as you can go. you should see the ends through the top when looked at like pic 2..
Both ends need to be the same for a straight through

when you say no connection, do you mean no link light???
 
The RJ45's are not wires correctly and most probs not making connection.

Do you have a multimeter handy, if so use that to test end to end for continuity.
 
Thats right, no link light. I've made cables in college before, and they worked fine. I've made 3 at home and neither work, grrr
 
Most probs what your finding is the solid core is not breaking through to the connections of the RJ45 because they are solid.

Look with your eye's at the plugs end and see of you can see the brass crimp breaking through the outer cable into the core.
 
I've just taken the outer sleaving off the test cable I made and I managed to pull 4 out of 8 of the inner cables out the connector.

I don't think the connectors are biting into the solid core cable correctly.
 
How to Make a Category 5 / Cat 5E Patch Cable

http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5E.aspx


Simple and concise, if you want to do the job properly, calculate where you want your points to be within the premises, run the cables back to a central point and terminate them on a patch panel, id recommend using Excel as your manufacturer, ive found there cables, wall points, face plates and panels very easy to work with.

If your going to spend the time and effort undertaking such a task do it properly, you will also need a punch down tool and cable tester as well.
 
I picked up the RJ45 connectors designed for solid core cable, crimped them on and all is well.

Thanks for all you help
 
Wiring RJ45 is simple, get order right, cut all small wires even, slide into boot/connector and use, heres the kicker A DECENT RJ45 CRIMP TOOL! this pushes all the connectors into the (unstripped) wires and bingo!

No lights = bad plug job simple. Take an unused boot/conn and look at it from the side and you will see a clear space above the copper end connectors. Look at a wired one and you should see no such space and the copper terminals should be flush with the base of the conn.

If we are to assume you've been 100% at this then look to fault either the terminals, the cable or quite likely the crimping tool. Get a good one!

can we see the tool you use for this? ive had a look at the pics and theres no problem i can see with either the plugs or wire or wiring-plugs

also a side on view of a wired plug might be good
 
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