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Crimping cables

Crimping cables

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Crimping cables

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- I think it's an important skill for any nerd to be able to cut and crimp their own cable. You should be able to take a chunk of cut, whatever, and crimp it up and make yourself a nice piece of network cable from that. Personally, I carry around a 100 foot piece of Unshielded twisted pair cable for all kinds of network testing. Okay, well it's not in my pocket, but it's in my car. So let's go ahead and talk about what it takes to cut and crimp your own cable. So take a look here. I've got a little tiny, short length of this is Cat 5e, which is just a little bit easier to show in front of a camera. And what we have here are crimps. These are RJ45 crimps. Now, one thing you need to be aware of when it comes to crimps is that they also have a cat rating. So if you're going to be cutting and crimping Cat 5e cable, make sure you go to the store and get Cat 5e crimps because you have to match 'em up. Also, I need to warn you right now, some of the more advanced types of cable like Cat 6a…

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