crimping ethernet without eyes

[Luke Davis]

Yeah, but how did you orient the cable in the RJ45 jack?



On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 talmage at somtel.com wrote:

>
> Well I probably didn't do it according to hoyle, but here is what I did.
> While I didn't have to connect all 8 wires on 1 end, I did it just to
> simplify things for myself.
> Once I did that, I went to the other end and found the wires I wanted and
> hooked them as needed.
> Since there are only 4 wires that you actually need, it wasn't too bad, and
> I just left the others out.
> While I didn't use the correct wires, at least by the book, I did at least
> hook up 4 wires the way they needed to be, and things have worked fine.
> If memory serves, here is the way they need to go.
>
> 1-3
> 2-6
> 3-1
> 6-2
>
> At 10:29 AM 3/13/2004, you wrote:
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> >Hmm. I'm interetsed in this subject as well. Were the wires in the
> >actual cable separated? If so, how did you know what to pair each wire
> >with to achieve the correct result? Did you have different tones
> >generated for each section of the plug you tried to connect to? I don't
> >see how you would have done it that way, assuming of course that that's
> >how you did it.
>
>
>
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