28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
11:32 a.m.
On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Aside from the color issue, which is a true concern if you're color blind,
crimping an RJ-45 onto a Cat5 cable is not difficult with a little
practice. I can make cables that are indistinguishable from factory made
in just a few moments these days. Getting the colours right takes just a
little review if you haven't done it recently, but if you do it all the
time its a no-brainer. I agree about the brown/orange problem.
So I still maintain I'd rather crimp than have to drag a soldering iron up
into a crawl space or something.
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So you're
saying its easier to work with a soldering iron, solder, a pair
of dykes, a knife and a 3-piece BNC connector behind a machine rack, as
opposed to a one-piece RJ-45 that requires one tool to cut, strip and
crimp? Wow. You ARE a glutton for punishment.
Yes, I find it a lot easier. The problem with the RJ45 is getting the
wires in the right order, keeping the pairs twisted right up to the
connector when so doing, indentifying the different colours of wire
(whoever put brown and orange in the same cable deserves to be LARTed
:-)). Actuallty doing the crimp is trivial.