On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
> > 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.
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.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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