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| BadMouth:
I usually just order cheap cables off ebay, but I have some amazon credit burning a hole in my pocket so I was looking at some of the cheap kits. I want to make custom length cat5 cables to wire my house. They will go through bulk cable pass-throughs in the rooms, so they'll just be regular cables with connectors on both ends. I know a fair number of you guys do this kind of stuff for a living. Any recommendations for the tools or cable? |
| Malenko:
dont cheap out. get a good quality crimper and punch down tool. Im at work so I cant tell you what brand I have :/ |
| JMB:
Do yourself a favor and get wall plate jacks for each end and terminate them and use patch cables rather than just terminating each end of your run like a giant patch cable. Klein and Ideal are on the lowish end of the price spectrum without being Harbor Freight quality. Will meet your needs. |
| gamepimp:
I had CAT-5 cable run all throughout the main floor of my house when it was being built. My buddy loaned me his crimper tool so I could terminate the ends with RJ45 connectors. It's called the EZ-RJ45 Crimp Tool made by Platinum Tools. This was my first attempt at doing this, and I can't imagine it being much easier. The individual wires are pushed thru the connector and actually poke out the other end. When you crimp the connector, there's a little blade on the tool that shears off the pieces that are sticking out the side opposite of where the wire goes in. If you go on YouTube, you can see a video of how it's used. I bought some CAT-6 to wire up my basement once I'm ready to finish it. My buddy didn't have the EZ-RJ45 connectors for CAT-6, but did have some of the old type. He showed me how to use those and it's way more cumbersome than the EZ-RJ45 ones. I will be ordering some of the EZ ones on Amazon very soon as that seems to be the cheapest place I've found them. :) |
| Howard_Casto:
+1 On the EZ RJ45 If you are doing standard cables it is the one to use. The only warning I could give is you need a traditional crimper/stripper if you are going to do cross-over cables and what-not. In terms of wall plates, they've recently came out with these deals that are recessed about an inch in the wall. If you go that route you should get those because rj45 connectors break and come loose easily, so you'll be moving furniture, kill your cable and then you have to make another. |
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