well hey everyone today i want to show you how to make cat5e or even cat6 cables
using easy rj45 connectors i just went out and bought this kit from amazon these are
pretty cheap i think it was less than 30 and it has everything you need to make this stuff
you open up the box you can see you got a crimper you got snaggle's boots you got the rj45 ends
and you got extra blades to that could sometimes go dull on the crimper and so this is great to
have all this stuff and it's basically everything you need sometimes i'll also
use a pair of snips for one little part of it and of course you're going to need a cat 5 or cat 6
cable so cat 5 or cat6 cables are really great for home networking if you want to connect some stuff
up with a wired home network and now they also have tons of uses in in audio production as well
either for like dante networks or other digital audio networking for personal monitor systems even
for led screens there's actually tons of uses for cat5 and cat6 now so this is a good skill to have
all right so this is actually a fairly easy thing to do but it's still you get to see how it all
goes down there's a couple things that could trip you up so first thing to start grab your cable
take your snagless boots
get that out of the way put that on first now you always want to put these on first if you're
going to use them at all these will just help them not catch if you're trying to pull these
cables through anything but if you don't put it on first you're gonna have to cut it off
and put it on later so always good to put that on first next thing you want to do is now strip
some of the jacket off the end of this cable now you want to strip off a decent amount this is not
a time to get cheap and try to save as much cable as possible cable is relatively cheap
and giving yourself extra will make this whole process go a lot easier so everything you need
on that again is on this crimping tool so you see there's this little space right here and basically
all you have to do is and it's actually made for exactly this kind of regular cat5
uh depth so if it's cat 6 it might actually cut into the wire to be a little bit careful
but regular cat5 you just literally slip that in get to the length you want i'll
take a goodly amount there snip push it down do a little spinning spin let it go
should have a nice clean cut there and that should just pop right open for you
sometimes you gotta pull just a little bit boom this is the one spot where sometimes i like a
little snip because they have this little um whatever you call it again vinyl or whatever
little bit of string in there and then the manufacturing process and i find it's hard to
actually cut it with the um the tool the crimp tool it can be done but it's not as clean so
i use this for this one step blink and that's all you need this for so let's get rid of that
put this away and then there is a whole color coding to how these wires need to go i um posted
a previous video about this and there was comments about how difficult it is for colorblind people
to manufacture these cables i really actually feel for them because most people aren't like
who are colorblind don't actually see black and white they just have trouble with certain colors
and so some of the camera differentiates between blues and greens or
the oranges and reds those kinds of things so what some people who are colorblind who tried
to work in networking have figured out a system where they can the the colors they can identify
they work with that to try to identify the rest because normally these are wrapped in a certain
order i actually didn't keep track of that well enough but apparently it's always the same ones in
the same order so if you can identify one color you should be able to then just by deduction
identify the others and so interesting little note there anyway all right so what you want to do is
start getting think about how the order you want these in and start as you're taking them apart
get them ready and so it's actually right on the crimping tool but i'm just going to put up a chart
there and there's an a and a b standard for how the order of these color coding and b standard
seems to be what everything is going to i'm not sure there's probably a big technical
explanation for why but anyway i just noticed that almost everything you get now is is standard
b so that's white orange orange white green blue white blue green white brown brown
so what some people do is to get these pairs apart they actually use the extra little bit of the
jacket that they took off and they kind of slip that in between and they kind of pull it apart
that actually works fairly well i sometimes do that sometimes i use my fingers just
whatever works better for you so again this one starts with white orange
so i'm going to put that to the side now what i like to do is get these nice and straight
also i find that if these aren't straightened out well they're much harder later on so if you
give yourself a couple extra seconds here you'll save tons of time later so let's use my thumbnail
now you're just even the thumb skin and just kind of get that as straight as you possibly can
so it's white orange orange so use that one next and then it's white green next okay i just use my
fingers i don't tend to use that piece of the the jacket but since white green next
good and straight and what i like to do is keep these in my finger fingers in order because they
need to stay in order for the final process so as i'm going i like to keep them in order
not not drop them not lose track of them not let them get out of order now this is where it
gets a little bit tricky or not really but you go to this pair now so it's blue next and then
white blue so it's actually the wires cross over i don't know why that's the standard i
don't know why that's better maybe you guys can tell me but i just know that's how you do it
then it's white blue and green and then on either standard the white brown and brown are next let's
see if i can use this thing again there we go you know what that actually is nice maybe we'll go to
using that more often so then yep white brown and then brown so then what i want to do now is get
these as close to each other and as tight too as possible so i'll start pinching and bending and
never kind of losing track of them in order try to get the tension out of them
lots of wiggly jiggly going on here and up and down side to side and the hope is to
get these as tight together as possible in the correct order and you get a nice clean
relatively straight line that looks pretty good to me and then you need a nice clean end on that
so this is again where you use the snip tool and in this little thing here we'll cut them
so i'll just make sure they're in there in the right order slide them straight
show the camera better here one second there we go and you get a nice clean cut you know
because i'm trying to show the camera i didn't get a nice straight cut let me try that again
there's also a nice thing if you keep extra then you can get a little extra off there
there we go now i've got a nice clean cut
and they're all nicely in order still this is where you grab the rj45 connector
now to get this in the correct order when you have these in this order that we talked about you want
to see these metal pins you want the tab down that's actually the correct way to install that
there we go so then if you've gotten these nice and straight if you've kept that cut nice and
straight uh you should be able to slide those in and they should go in first try
nice and easy my first try of doing these it was not nice and easy it was a big pain it took
me like eight tries and it's because i didn't straighten these out enough
so really make sure you get them good and straight good and cut clean and that should just slide
right in nice and easy and i'll save you tons and tons of time now you want to shove this in as far
as as humanly possible with cat6 some people will say not to shove this quite this far
because it might actually pinch this end but on these cables since it's a little bit thinner in
diameter it's no problem if you want to do that get that good in there good and solid
and then on the back on the crimping tool it's where it does the actual crimping there's one
that says 8p here and that's the one you want to use first there's eight pins slide that into
there make sure you don't get the cables caught as they go in which they sometimes want to do
there we go it slides all the way through you can see there
push that in while you're going and then just clamp it down
and that's a nice job that cuts the end off as well of those wires
and you get a nice clean connection there
i was verified it was in the correct order once one more time yeah white orange orange
white green blue white blue green white brown brown perfect you slide the snagless boot on
just gotten a little tight there we go
and that is not going on straight there we go and that is done get yourself now one end so of course
you want to repeat this thing on the other side make sure again you use the exact same uh wire
stand otherwise you're going to have problems and that's your cat cat5 cable done now it's really
good if you have a cable tester to make sure that at the very least all the pins are working
there's ones that test the speed as well make sure everything is flowing exactly fully properly um
but i don't have one right now but this one should work so i'll do the other side one way to test it
of course is to plug it in and see if things work but that's your cat5 cable for you really handy
and there's this whole way again if using this in the in the audio production world that you can
add a neutrik ethercon end to it and that's very helpful and very handy and take care God bless!