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[Livens]

Hey its great this place is back!

Need some help.

I'm building a new house that will have an unfinished basement, just thw wals will be roughed in. So I'm tanking this oppertunity to wire the whole place with ethernet.

I have never made my own Cat5/6 cable before so I'm a little ify about the process. I tried some cat5e cable with some regular connectors and a cheapy RJ45 Crimper. That seemed OK, but the crimper didn't push all the plates down all the way.

Now I found some Cat6 cable really cheap. They sell bulk cable and sell scrap peices that they have (50 - 100 ft) really cheap ($2.33 USD) per. Anyway I got the cable and tried putting a connector on it... Not so easy. First off there is a + shaped plastic divider in the cable making it thicker than normal. Also tthose cheap crimpers have gotten worse.

So here is what I need.

1. Suggestions on whet type/brand crimper I should get. I saw a nice one(i think) at HomeDepot that has a rachet system (Ideal Ratchet Telemaster™ Telephone Tool for RJ-11/RJ-45 Model 30-696):

'http://www.homedepot.com/prel80HDUS/EN_US/diy_main/pg_diy.jsp?frmSearchStr=drywall&paging=1&cameFromSearch=false&CNTTYPE=PROD_META&sortOrder=relevance&currentPage=2&MID=9876&com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&CNTKEY=misc%2fsearchResults.jsp&renderer=basic

2. Does anyone have experience crimping RJ45? Can you give me some advise as to the best way to get all the wires straight and lined up right?

Thanks

[Livens]

Thanks for the info guys. Really does help.

Since I already have the Cat6 cable, got it super cheap @ 9 bucks for ~275ft, I'm going to try and use it. The wires inside are exactly the same as normal Cat5e wires, its just there is this big plastic X inside making the whole wire much bigger. I played around a bit crimping ends on little 4 in. peices and the hardest part is getting the unstripped part to fit in the back of the connector. But I found that by crushing it flat with the lower part of my wire strippers it fits pretty good.

The crimpers I am using have 8 little teeth on the crimp head. Each tooth hits a single connecter blade <- not sure if that what they are called, and pushes it into the wire. Problem is it looks to be cheaply made in tiawan and 2 of the teeth just make the blades slip to the side when you try to crimp it. I am looking into a sloid crimp head crimper, or just make one myself :). Looks like al you need is a small rectangular peice of metal that is the same width as all of the blades and perfectly flat. I'll rig up something so I can press it down on the connector smoothly and straight.

Thanks again for the advise.