Re: [PLUG] Networking Cat5e cable question....

[Mike Sheinberg <m.sheiny@gmail.com>]

Well the devices are good. I've used known good cables with them and they operate works fine (same ports between the same devices, testing with known-good cable).

Yeah, I figured it was a craftsmanship issue. I'm not the best cable maker... but this is getting ridiculous. I have made a lot of good cable using our other cat5 strands and my failure rate is dramatically different. Unfortunately I'm the only one around here who can 'make cable' so I can't entirely rule myself out of this one :)

The thing that gets me is that these damn cable testers are telling me the wiring is fine but it's still failing to work when I go to plug it in. That's why I was curious if there are any type of issues with certain types of rj45 plugs or certain types of cat5e wire with certain devices or whatever...

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Conor Schaefer <conor.schaefer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com> wrote:

Define "not working"

Allow me: the cables are "failing to light up the 'link' lights when [he] plug[s] them into various devices".

Are you testing regularly with known good cables and known good hardware? That is, have you absolutely isolated that it's the cables you're making, and store-bought cables continue to work fine? Personally, my area of trouble was always fitting the lines into the end caps.. there's an art to it that unfortunately I still lack!

Has anyone else been able to use the same materials and produce a working cable? That is, can we ascertain whether it's a materials or craftsmanship issue?
 

"Mike Sheinberg" <m.sheiny@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm having some issues with a new box of 1000' cat5e cable and was wondering
>if anyone on here could provide some advice. I know this isn't exactly a
>Linux question but it's general networking and I figured it would be in the
>same ballpark for many of you :)
>
>Anywhoo, a lot of the patch cables I am making is failing to light up the
>'link' lights when I plug them into various devices. I have made a couple
>successful ones that work but the majority of them are a huge headache and
>are not working. The weird part is we have two cat5 network cable testers
>here, both of them confirm that all my lines match up and that both ends of
>the cable are identical (one of the devices even gives me an accurate
>reading of the cable lengh). Still though I have issues plugging these into
>devices. At this point I'm wondering if there's something wrong with the
>cable, or wrong with the RJ45 end pieces, or a weird combination of both. Do
>Cat5e cables require a different rating/class/whatever of RJ45 ends than
>cat5 cables? I don't seem to have this issue when I'm making traditional
>cat5 patch cable...
>
>Thanks in advance for any pointers.
>-Mike

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