[ale] Cat-5 question

[Christopher Fowler]

When I started this it took me around 5+ minutes on each end and it
required testing.  I now can do it in less than 1 minute and no testing
required :)

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:07 -0400, H P Ladds wrote:
> Spread out and give yourself some room to work. No need to work as if
> your a mouse nibbling on cheese. Allow the cable to lay flat for 3
> feet+. Lay the cable in an orientation that diminishes its tendency to
> twist -- don't fight with the cable as you are working on it. 
> 
> Strip about 2" , get the wire's flat and in order, then trim all wires
> to length. 
> 
> Don't be afraid to keep pushing the cable into the connector until all
> of the wires have reached the end -- sometimes this takes a bit of
> massaging. 
> 
> A tester is a time saver.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/9/06, Sean Kilpatrick <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>         Boy, oh boy, do I need some help.
>         Needed to string more Cat-5 cable under the house. Had to chop
>         off 
>         one plug to get the wire through the holes already bored in
>         the
>         house's structure. ("She who must be consulted" has ruled that
>         no
>         more half-inch holes may be bored in walls or floors.)
>         So how do I attach a new rj-45 plug to the cable? 
>         
>         I have the crimper and a handful of the plugs. But I have
>         tried
>         and tried and I can not get all eight tiny wires inside the
>         plug,
>         nicely lined up in their proper grooves, and shoved all the
>         way
>         to the end -- that's the really tricky part. 
>         
>         I got close enough once to actually get the green light on the
>         ethernet card to blink rapidly for about 10 seconds before it
>         gave
>         up.  Either there is some trick tool I don't own that makes
>         this
>         job easier, or I need the hands and eyesight of a 12-year-old 
>         Persian rug maker.
>         
>         Are all eight wires actually used?
>         
>         How do people do this who do it for a living?
>         
>         Sean
>         
>         
>         
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