September 3rd, 2011 — cat-5 Utp Patch Cables
NORTH ANDOVER, MA – L-com, inc., a global leader in the manufacture of wired and wireless connectivity products, now carries 19″ rack panels with right-angle CAT5e keystone-mount couplers. The new rack panels allow users to patch Category 5e cables at 90
August 25th, 2011 — cat-5 Utp Patch Cables
NORTH ANDOVER, MA – L-com, Inc., a global leader in the manufacture of wired and wireless connectivity products, now carries 19″ rack panels with right-angle CAT5e keystone-mount couplers. The new rack panels allow users to patch Category 5e cables at 90
August 5th, 2011 — cat-5 Utp Patch Cables
Here is my issue. I am stationed in Germany and have been waiting on the local phone company to "connect" my DSL cable to the punch down block in the house for FOUR MONTHS!!!! I know the inbound cable is connected to the punch down block in the house because my neighbor's phone and internet is working (the two houses are joined and share the same punch down). There are two 4 wire cables not connected by the punch down block. I am sure that one of these cables go to my side of the house but I do not know which wires on which cable goes to my DSL splitter connection. Does anyone know how to test these wires?
July 11th, 2011 — cat-5 Utp Patch Cables
Hi,
I would like to run CAT 6 cabling and power in the same conduit. should the CAT 6 be sheilded or is unsheilded good enough?
Unshielded should be fine.
EDIT: I see everybody disagrees… but is a very small amount (if any) of intereference worth the insanely high cost of quality STP cable?
Go shielded, try to avoid all problems that may arise from the beginning.
Some jurisdictions may prohibit running electrical and network cable in the same conduit. Better check that first. if something ever burns down from some electrical fault, and you had prohibited wiring, your insurance will not cover it.
In my case, the electrician ran the CAT5 in a separate conduit than the electrical, for the 75 feet between buildings…
That said, I think the issue may be how far you are going. if only 10,20 or 50 feet, it may not be an issue. however, going hundreds of feet, it may be…
If running shielded cable long distance, to separate building, make sure you ground only ONE end of the shield to ground, to prevent ground loops for electrical current.
June 23rd, 2011 — cat-5 Utp Patch Cables
Because the house is constructed of cement and rebar the wireless signal is blocked in all but one room…I had a cable 20meters long made with 5e catagory cable with 8 pin connectors {a long patch cord if you will}. my two meter cord works great, the 20 meter keeps saying "unplugged" what is the most distance I can run? any advice greatly appreciated!!
Chances are the cable is simply badly made . . . Cat5e should run to 50m+ with no problems
Also compare the end plugs on teh 2 cables, is 1 patch (all cables in same order) and 1 a crossover (not same order in 2 plugs) ?
Must be bad ends or damaged cable. Ethernet can run to hundreds of feet without error (even further than their specified lengths)
duxcw.com/faq/network/cablng.…
Hmmm.. that shouldnt be too long. Ive got a good 100ft etween my router ond one of my pc's. maybe the dsl modem isnt strong enough to push it that far? Mine goes through the modem to a linksys router to my pc.
You wired it wrong, for that distant, you cant just use straight 8 to 8, theres a special wiring layout for it, not at work now so I dont have the diagram in front of me, but from your description, thats the cause of the 'unplugged' error.
Seen that, got a T-shirt for 'Wasted a whole day on a single cable' 
20 meters is nothing. You should be able to go 300 meters before you have any signal degradation.
Why make up a cable, they are quite cheap to buy. You have either got an incorrect cable sequence or a bad crimp. they are quite difficult to get right, you really need a lan cable tester for these jobs. You do NOT need any special wiring for distance, it is exactly the same. 150 meters is the quoted CAT5E range, I have seen 250 meters work.