Question Is there an "easy" way to fix a new RJ45 to a flat cat7 cable?

[gabrio81]

hi there,

one of my 50m Flat cat7 ethernet cables had an issue and long story short, i had to cut the end in order to pull it out of a hole. Since it's a 50€ cable, i thought i might as well try to fix it and put a new Rj45.

There are those Tool Less adaptors which are neat but seems they cannot do a flat one, correct? Is there a specific kit for fixing a RJ 45 on a flat one?

Or, are these fused at the factory and there's no point trying to fix them? don't have tools at the moment so i'd have to buy everything from scratch and i just need to fix one cable at the moment.

thanks,
Gabrio

 

[bill001g]

Good luck finding anything that will work on flat cables.

First any flat cable you find is not actually a ethernet cable. The wire size is much too small to meet the certifications to be ethernet.

That small wire is the addition huge problem you have trying to replace ends on the cable. Since no flat cable meets any standard it tends to all be proprietary. Now if you look around you will find ends designed to use say 30 or 33 awg wire. These too unfortunately are not built to any standards so you have no idea about cross compatibility.

Hard to say you might find something on say aliexpress but that is a very risky place to buy stuff.

I would just spend the money now and buy a quality cable..ie pure copper with wire size 22-24. You only need cat5e, the cat7 standard was never finalized. If you want 10gbit support you need to buy cat6a. BUT the cat numbers mean very little you need to verify that the cable has the proper wires.

 

[gabrio81]

hi, thanks, ok as i thought then, cable in the bin, moving on. Cheers!