Be sure to slide the snagless boots snugly over the connectors when finished. See Cable Testers. Building patch cables takes practice so keep at it until you master your technique! Download How to make a Cat5 Patch Cable. Custom Cables. Clearance Items. About Shipping. Cisco Compatable. Fiber Optic Attenuator. Fiber Optic Testers. Telephone Cable. Solid Conductor. Stranded Conductor. Direct Burial. See Connectors Step 2 Cut the cable to the length needed. See Snagless Boots Step 3 Strip back the cable jacket approximately 1 inch.
Step 4 Use the B wiring scheme on both ends for a standard patch cable. Step 5 Bring all of the wires together as closely as possible. See Precision Cutting Tool Step 6 With the connector pins facing up, carefully insert the wires into the connector. Alternate for "load bar" Type Connectors A. Step 7 Observe the tip of the connector to confirm that all the wires are fully inserted. Next up is cutting the wires and applying the insert guide. The trick to cutting the wires is that you want to do it at a sharp downward angle or to cut them one-by-one in steps.
The reason for this is because they will need to be inserted into the insert guide and this is much easier to accomplished if you only have to worry about one wire at a time. Once all 8 cables are in the insert guide in the correct grooves move the insert guide down to the base of where you originally cut the outer coating of the cable. If an insert is unavailable be sure to hold the wires between your thumb and forefinger tightly to keep them in order.
Leave about a half inch of the wires exposed and trim the excess length with wire cutters; then, slip on the connector, making sure that the outer jacket is seated in the connector. It may take a few tries to ensure the connectors are in the correct order and are in position for crimping. Now you're ready to slip on the connector. Once the cable is the correct length, slip the connector on.
The cables should slide in with very little difficulty. Make sure each wire reaches all the way to the end of the connector. The last step is to actually crimp the connector. You may be asking "So what's actually happening during the crimping process? The pins in the connector are then pressed down into contact with the 8 copper wires of the cable creating a connection.
Make sure you squeeze the crimper all the way down to ensure a connection. Finally, repeat the process on the opposite side of the cable. Even though the wires are twisted, the signals are still vulnerable to in environments with a lot of electrical interference. STP cables are a commonly used name for all the shielded twisted pair cables. Depending on how the shielding is done in the cable, you can get several types of twisted pair cables with a shield. STP refers to all the cables with either a shield or a foil to protect the signals from noise.
Besides the shield, the foil is also used in twisted pair cables. Foil or FTP Foiled Twisted Pair is a layer of metal foiled around either all the wires, all the pairs of wires, or both. All these types of twisted pair cables are available with different specifications. The cables are available with stranded wires our solid-core wires. Stranded wires are flexible wires. This is because the wires are divided into many smaller wires. On the other hand, solid core wires are solid wires and are not very flexible.
Solid core wires are usually used in a fixed installation. Twisted pair cable comes with different wire thicknesses. The usual ones are 22 and 24 AWG. If you are going to make longer Ethernet cables you should use twisted-pair cables with the highest AWG number. As the cables get longer, so does the resistance. If you use thicker wires the resistance will be lower. Remember, the higher the resistance, the slower your network connection will be.
The cables used for making Ethernet cables are divided into categories. Each category is defined by the available bandwidth and used for different purposes. For example, category 3 or cat3 cables are used for telephone connections. All the cable categories for twisted pair cables are defined in ISO The Ethernet cables this guide aims for are the ones using RJ45 connectors in the ends.
They are the ones you can make by yourself. For that, you will be using one of the following cable categories. Category 5 cables or cat5 Ethernet cables are normally used in noise safe environments. Since cat3 and cat4 cables are not used for Ethernet cables, cat5 is the slowest Ethernet cable you can make. This category is a subcategory or an extension of category 5. This category has almost the same specifications as cat5, except for some limits in for example the return loss.
This makes faster network speed available. That is why cat5e cables are faster than cat5 cables. Still no fiber connection, though. But cat6 cables are the fastest Ethernet cables you can make. You can see a comparison of the cable categories 3 to 7 , which are used for Ethernet. You can learn more about CAT 6 cables here. The connector used for twisted-pair Ethernet cables is called RJ45 connectors. RJ45 is a connector with 8 pins. One for each wire in a typical Ethernet cable with 4 pairs of wires.
The RJ45 connector is a one-way connector. This means that on top of the connector there is a small you can only connect it in one way. Here is how the RJ45 pinout looks:. When you make an Ethernet cable it is important to know where each pin is. Because, when you connect an Ethernet cable to an RJ45 connector you will be using a crimp tool. When you have crimped the connector there is no way back.
Make sure to have some connectors for practice. As with the cables UTP simply means shielded twisted pair. This is because the UTP connectors have no shield, and are entirely made out of plastic. The RJ45 UTP connector is the simplest one to work with since you do not have to worry about the shield. You can use it with both shielded and shielded twisted pair cables.
The pins in an RJ45 connector are made with a sharp edge to cut into the wires and thereby making an electrical connection. But the STP connector has a metal shield or metal housing around the connector. A pack of costs can be purchased on Amazon. To make the electrical connection we need to insert the wires in the RJ45 connector and press down the pins. This is done with the RJ45 crimp tool.
The tool will also apply pressure to the opening of the connector, to secure the cable.
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