Great job!

Blessed you are!!!

I need that tool. What exactly is the name for it? I am wasting too much time putting these cables together, Please HELP!!

My pleasure, I hope they were useful for you 😄

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Great to hear! Glad the tester helped you find the issue as well :)

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@@SwitchedOnNetwork I got a huge carton of Ethernet cables from an office dumpster (200 lbs of wires), and use a tester like this to diagnose each length of cable. I was able to weed out all the garbage cable and find cables that had nail holes through them or other damage and make a nice crate of good cables - of very expensive brands. I kept some for me and sold the rest. The garbage cable I painstakingly inspected by eye and cut out the bad parts and made another carton of short stumpy patch cables with new ends and ended up with another carton of those to sell. Probably made $600 off them all. These cable tester tools are a lifesaver!

Thank you, you're so kind!

@@SwitchedOnNetwork I should be thanking you! Saved my ass with my Networking college course.

Excellent! Glad I could help 🙂

Maybe if the colors weren't in the wrong order they'd have a bigger channel. He's got the solid blue wire in pin 3 in the video. Obviously used a different cable for the test at the end.

You spotted the Easter egg, that I used the wrong bit of footage at one point whilst editing by mistake 🤣

Glad it was helpful! 🙂

ha, nice method! Glad the video was helpful - thanks! :)

After the green is actually striped blue white, so how is that grass?

@@paulgill7222 I just put brown (dirt), green (grass), blue(sky), orange(sun). Then precede each color with its stripped version. But before crimping, switch stripped green with stripped blue. Sounds stupid but worked for me.

@@felipel.r.637 OK thanks. I don't understand why they never chose to just go with one solid, followed by its stripped and so on. Why this mix mash up? Probably a geek trying to confuse others? Lol

@@paulgill7222Indeed! That's a good example of why mechanics hate engineers hahaha

haha glad you find my terrible jokes funny, at least someone does! 🤣🤣

Of course I do, that's the correct way of saying it 😜

Thank you so much ☺️

Glad you found it helpful!

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@tomyerinides4002, another hint is that @SwitchedOnNetwork is not insulting your intelligence with this reply. He's humming their most well known tune for you in text ;-)

إنه لمن دواعي سروري ، أنا سعيد لأنك وجدتها مفيدة!

Thank you!

Yup, assuming there's a working cable run behind it that should work just fine. At the other end just plug into your router.

You're welcome 😊

No such thing as a stupid question! :-) 1) It can be used as a (very rudimentary) punch down tool for wiring up keystone jacks (ie. wall sockets). However, if you're going to be doing any of that I'd recommend a much better tool, the one I demo in this video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f66oh8WlpqvIXXk.html 2) You're basically right, yes, they'd just be treated as patch leads so you wouldn't notice or experience any problems whatsoever. There's a *bit* more to it than that, and I'm sure someone will come along and tell me how wrong my last statement is, it's to do with legacy backwards compatibility with smaller RJ11 phone connections before the general shift to the B standard but it's too much to get into here. TLDR; yes you'll be fine with either standard! (But as you say, for maintenance, knowing that anything other than a simple pre-made off-the-shelf patch lead uses either A or B will be useful for any properly installed cable runs).

​@@SwitchedOnNetwork Thank you very much! I just have ethernet cables going straight into switches as those "wall sockets" were insanely expensive when I first started cabling up my house many years ago, and I just kept going like that. :-) Also thanks for clarifying the A vs. B mix-up issue: I kept seeing the same recommendation ("make sure you use the same as what's already there!") but nobody ever points out that it's mostly for maintenance reasons, rather than anything technical. The A system should be an expansion of RJ11, with the central pairs being effectively the same as an RJ11 connector and the other two added to the sides, one wire on each side per pair... if that makes sense. Still no idea why B is "better" but it's one of those holy wars we all seem to partake in when it comes to technology. :-D I also just followed your suggestion in another video and ordered a box of pass-through connector, a pair of pointy clippers and a specialised crimping tool, as I've had *hell* trying to crimp this cat6 wire with the old equipment I had: the wires are so stubborn that the moment I went to actually crimp the connector, at least one would "roll back" and not make contact. And to think I could crimp cat5e cables almost blindfolded! I do wonder if using the B system would make for a physically looser "sorting order" of the wires. I'll give it a go as soon as the crimping tool is delivered, maybe that's why it's considered better! Thanks again, and great channel. Subbed here and followed you around social media - seems like we share several points of views!

If you do that you'll have a crossover cable - which is fine if that's what you're intending to make, but certainly NOT fine if that's not what you want. If it's a long patch lead you need to make (eg. for connecting a device to a router/switch) then you need the clip facing away from you on both ends, so both ends are identical.

Thank you! Very kind of you, and I'm glad you found the video useful 😀

Cat7 isn't compatible, but I think cat 8 it would.

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 thank you for your reply - it’s nice to know somebody is caring to make a difference to others . A big thumbs up for you 👍

Try using the side of a screwdriver to run along them and straighten them out. With practice it'll work 👍

My pleasure, hope you found it useful 👍

Yes, you can get plugs with different gauge (AWG) but for that type of cable you're better terminating it to a keystone jack in a wall socket and then using an off-the-shelf patch lead to connect into the device.

The important thing is to use the same wiring standard at each end of a cable, A or B. It doesn't really matter what the rest of the network uses as long as each end of the cable is the same, but for the sake of neatness and consistency I'd use the same as elsewhere if you can.

Start by using the cable tester. It's possible some lights won't light up. Fast Ethernet (0.1Gbit) can run on just two twisted pairs, so that's why it's still syncing at all, if indeed something has come undone. You may need to reterminate, and pinning against the wall may not be so good. Pass-through RJ45 plugs are much simpler to get right.

It's called editing 😘

No, because the twists and which pairs are twisted together are important. Different pairs handle different things and in different direction for two way communication and error handling etc. Twisting pairs together prevents electromagnetic interference and allows cancellation of unwanted RF etc

@@SwitchedOnNetwork Good to know. Thank you.

Great vids by the way 😁

Thanks! Yeah that will mean there's a break somewhere in the connection. Depending on how fancy your tester is, it might tell you which end (or at least help you figure out which end) so you know which one to snip off and redo. If you're using a tester like the one in the video, try swapping the sender/receiver ends round. IIRC, if it lights up on the sender end but not the receiver end it's likely that the fault is on the receiver end - hope that helps!

@@SwitchedOnNetwork had plenty to spare so cut them both, bought some passthrough clips for good measure and all is good now. There'll be no stopping me now!!! Thanks

Paumanhin, hindi ko maintindihan ang iyong tanong. Maaari mo bang i-rephrase ito?

It's for connecting two devices directly together (ie. not via a switch or router), so the "send" on one end will be considered "receive" at the other end, and vice-versa. Wikipedia will give you more info if you want to read up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable

Or the other ends of ur wire is 8A?

Yes. You must use the same standard at each end (A and A or B and B) unless you want to make a crossover cable, which would have A at one end and B at the other (rarely used these days).

@@SwitchedOnNetwork where would this type of cable be implemented?

@@StrangeComments Older computers may not have MDI-X. If you need to get a DOS computer online and the ethernet driver is loaded and working, but it only works if you connect to a switch, rather than to another computer, and you want to connect it directly to another computer, you may need a crossover cable. Most newer ethernet cards are capable of automatically faking crossover mode. In the last few weeks when I have been using ethernet cables to connect my computers, I have only used patch (A to A, or B to B).

Huh?

You got it 😀

Ooops! Did you test it with a tester?

@@SwitchedOnNetwork Nope, i didnt push brown one all the way in, i realized that after i tryed to pull it out, bcs i though i can do same step all over again, but then i realized it cannot be replaced one you press crimpers. :) Well, bought a new 5 connectros and was able to make it on first try, but yea, weekend on WiFi with laaags :( :D

Practise makes perfect... you crimp enough cables you will eventually hit almost 100% connectivity without even using a tester..... not that you shouldn't a tester... but confidence is a powerful thing. :P

haha, every now and again is manageable but no more than that 😂

Because passthrough plugs aren't the only type and some people prefer this type.

I bought the only plugs available on the day I needed them: non-passthrough. I appreciated this video.