Guy's here in class I just got done making my first RJ-45 cable(cat 5) WOOO GO ME!

 

TN568A or TN568B?

 

T568-B

It's about 1 1/2ft long I feel accomplished though! First one in the class to get it working! Took only one try too!

 

Now take a RJ-45 Male and connect 8 to 4 and 7 to 5 and you have successfully created a loopback plug for an RJ48C T1.

 

We're not that far yet We've got a lab tomorrow, so I'll keep ya updated! I'm only in cisco 1

 

Ask the prof why you are working on old stuff. Do you get to splice fiber?

 

LGJ you won't be so happy once you have to spend 4 or 5 hours in a wiring closet making and testing CAT5's and fiber to see where the networks down. fonman's correct, you better get that instructor to start teaching you to splice fiber. When I left the business 2 years ago, everything was going to fiber.
I cleaned out a few boxes in the garage last week and found a pile of RJ-45's, and several old cross-over cables I'd made just to have a few extras.

Good luck in class.

 

Ahhh yes I remember the days.... cut, splice, align, crimp...cut, splice, align, crimp. All in a little closet with a dim lightbulb and hot fans blowing at ya from all over. I've never worked with fiber other than my monster cable for the DVD player. It's been 4+ years since I've worked with that stuff. I bet it's a pain sometimes. How do you test a line with fiber anyway?

 

Fiber testers are pretty much a "source" (hi intensity lamp in a box) and "meter" (meter )

All you do is look for loss of intensity. No NeXT, Attenuation, etc. It's really pretty easy. It isn't exactly field building amphenol connectors for 1A2 sets under a desk with a flashlight in your teeth.

 

LOL, you guys have to remember this is only a HS course We might get glass in our little eyes if we splice fiber Plus this class if full of retards that just got stuck in the class. After this 9 weeks are over we'll actually be able to get rid of some of "them" and do some real work.

We're on chapter 5 now, so we've just begun doing things like this. I'm actually using the cable I made in class today for my DSL modem to Computer connection

 

Damn, I was figuring I would be reading a thread about someone eliminating another cat from the earth and telling us this was their 5th cat “taking-out” if you will…

 

LMAO and the great one chimes in about cat killing

 

Never mind your eye ..See what happens when you get a strand in your finger !!...Have your teach lay out a 100 pair cable and see your eyes get all buggy from all the pretty colors..heh heh...also let me know if your teach knows any politically correct acronyms for color codes ha ha ha......w,r,b,y,v....v,y,b,r,w.....?

 

Ugh...I used to work with 108 pair twisted cable....
It's been several years now but I still remember
"Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate"
Puting the connectors on that stuff sucked...esp the gel cable.

Stan

 

Ah, you guys ain't done nutin' till you've strung an entire building with Token Ring, and made all the connectors by hand. No test machines, just a MAU on both ends with workstations to test each run. All the connectors are made with wire cutters, vise grips, screwdrivers, and plyers.
Arg,Arg,ARG, now them's were the days matey!!!!!