geeksaresexy.blogspot.com — This simple, no nonsense guide, will teach you how to make a good Ethernet patch cord at a fraction of the price it would cost you to buy it pre-manufactured. A 10" cat5e patch cord can cost you up to 7$ in a store. If you make your own cable, each of them should cost you around 1,20$.
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profmoJan 26, 2006
"In canada we post the $ sign after the amount. so it's 1.20$"Do we? I never learned to do it that way. I guess you learn something new everyday?As for the article... I think for the average computer user it's more worth it to pay the $7.00. If you're running tons of cable around your house, then maybe. But, I'm digging anyway because this would also be useful if someone needed to fix a broken ethernet cable.
geekyJan 27, 2006
This all over the place... <a class="user" href="http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5e.aspx">http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5e.aspx</a><a class="user" href="http://www.mycableshop.com/techarticles/patchcabbes.htm">http://www.mycableshop.com/techarticles/patchcabbes.htm</a>no digg
etype_rJan 27, 2006
I made a few of these at work for the first time today, without a guide. Someone at work showed me how to make one and left. Making your own is great when you need to hook up a switch board and need several short cables. Makes a much cleaner install without all the looping wire hanging every where.
spamdiesJan 27, 2006
wow, blog spam, this has only been posted hunders of times. stop driving traffic to your blog... lame
sdawgJan 27, 2006
"Who the hell uses a 10 inch patch cable? Damn, that is short."Well, We use 10" cables all of the time when a jumper has to placed between switches to cascade them. You really don't want a 10 cable between switches when they are stacked in a rack. People are so quick to criticize others. Also, standards are used for reasons most would not understand until they have to re-terminate one end of a cable and find out that the other end was punched down incorrectly in the patch panel.There are 3 ways to terminate a cable: Straight, Crossover, Rollover. (Rollover is when the cable is completely opposite of the each end. Used on a lot of Cisco Equipt)
inkheadMar 11, 2006
Get a real ethernet card that doesn't need a patch cable. :P Any mac, or any nice intel mobo auto switches the connections for patch cord.