[PLUG] Cat 5e wiring
Ronald Chmara
ronabop at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 05:38:22 UTC 2008
On Oct 9, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Bruce KIlpatrick wrote:
> All,
>
> I am trying to run cat 5 cable from my router to two other rooms. I
> have the wire pulled, spliced together, and am having trouble making
> both cables work. I have tried resplicing, new wire, and new ends for
> the wall plates.
Others have chimed in, I have this to say:
"cat 5 requires a six inch bend radius"
When trying to get cables to work, a lot of us older folks are used
to, well, older rules.
Sure, a two inch bend radius works on our car.
Yeah, we could be sloppy as heck with bell wire, splice it, join it
with electrical tape, whatever.
Back in 10-T days, it didn't matter if we were TIA-568A, or TIA-568B.
...but *now* it matters.
-Bop
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