What are you working on, /g/?
BTW, I am new to this shit and I just checked that fucking CAT6 patch cables are more than $3 a piece. What the fuck man.
>>51771660
>almost 2016
>not making patch cables yourself
shiggy diggy doo
>>51771660
>>51771729
Poor fag does the monkey man Job Exe dee
>>51771769
it's all part of my brilliant plan to make monkeys jobless and, eventually, extinct
Currently "working on" studying for a CCNA Security cert. Any advice?
>>51771872
Drop out
>>51771888
Why? Stupidly hard?
>>51771729
Fucking this. It's super easy to do, plus you can make any length you need.
>>51771872
R+S and VoIP are in higher demand.
>>51771986
nice shitty side cutters, all those are gonna do is smash your copper lol do your ends even fit in the connector?
>>51771986
There is also the fact anyone claiming to a network tech better be able to do it in their sleep.
>>51771660
It's a Cat6. 10gbps for a short distance. Cat5e is enough for a 1gbps connection.
>>51771872
I hope you'll get it.
>>51772109
Really? Never woulda thought it.
I spent most of my time in college doing routing and switching with Cisco equipment.
How hard is it?
>>51772123
> acid green
What is this? 2015 HaXXor hardware kit?
>>51772156
They're based on Paladin Tools, love em, but they were bought out by a Chinese company and rebranded. They use to be a nice orange/grey but they've since changed the color.
Not saying that I mind the green tho.
>>51772128
This. My instructor in college gave us fat stacks of CAT5e, RJ-45 connectors, a crimper, a wire cutter, and a cable tester.
Told us that our college and other brances of our college had next to nothing for network cables. Spent the whole day making crossover, straight through and patch cables.
>>51772123
Yeah they are shitty, I've been meaning to get new ones for a while. Yes, they do, quite easily in fact.
Okay guys. I am hooked. I am never buying patch cables. How do I make pro-grade cables? How much should the cable be striped and shit.
See >>51772215. In my cables I cut the insulation a little too much so the cable is a little farther in than in that pic. Is that fine?
>>51772211
Make own cables master race
>>51772251
Keep practicing. Your cable will work - but you really do want the jacket to go past the rear internal clip that gets crimped. This is what keeps the strain off the copper wires. You don't want to have to keep track of which cables you need to be more delicate with.
Also - patch cables should use stranded conductor cable. Solid is for keystones / 110 / punch down etc. You can use solid - but you need to make sure your heads support solid (they have a tri-fork blade to 'straddle' the solid conductor instead of a simple straight blade that penetrates the stranded).
>>51772251
Just cut the wires themselves to fit the length of the connector after you have them in order, usually half an inch is good
I have the nice sheath cutter above, but I still use the scissors and the pull cord to cut down the side, the cutter is nice but can cut the wires inside and cause interference.
bum(p)
>>51771660
I don't know if this counts as networking in the traditional sense or not but I am trying to get UART working with my atmega32
Am I'm getting is gibberish in the serial port when I'm supposed to get a sweet "HI"
>>51771660
>That pic
Fucking genius
>>51771986
>$0.40 per connector
You got ripped off son. God-tier crimper though.
>>51772251
>How much should the cable be striped and shit.
As little as possible. The shorter you can strip them while still fitting the wires in the plug pins, the better.
>>51774768
Check baud rates on both ends. Sounds like the receiving end is too fast.
I'm renumbering my network (Subnets and VLANs), and preparing the new IPAM/DNS/DHCP system.
>>51771660
>I have a 8.5/10 tier Tenda W306R Wireless Router
>I have an Atheros L2 NIC
>tfw I have a CAT5 cable
It hurts to live. I'll get 40m of CAT6 next week so shit's gonna be fucking fun.
