My house had cat5e cable running as telephone wire from room to room. We don't have a landline so I figured I'd rewire one of the lines to help run ethernet to a far room.
I crimped new cat5e ends on, used my cable tester and everything displayed in sequence 1-8 ok on both ends. But I plug a computer in via ethernet jack and no signal is transmitted (ethernet jack doesn't even light on the computer). Did some searching in the forums and discovered the ethernet tester could show lights go in the right order, but if used the wrong pairs it could be adding interference.
Sure enough, I look at the crimp and I have both ends in this order (with the clip down):
This forum says it should be:
WOOPS.
Here's my problem, on one end the cable is recessed into the wall and it was hard enough crimping a new end the first time. I don't think there is enough room to cut off the bad crimp job and do a new one (at least not with my tools).
Anyone have any suggestions? Could i throw a crossover cable on the end on one for 4 inches to 'undo my mess'? or would that not help?
I crimped new cat5e ends on, used my cable tester and everything displayed in sequence 1-8 ok on both ends. But I plug a computer in via ethernet jack and no signal is transmitted (ethernet jack doesn't even light on the computer). Did some searching in the forums and discovered the ethernet tester could show lights go in the right order, but if used the wrong pairs it could be adding interference.
Sure enough, I look at the crimp and I have both ends in this order (with the clip down):
white orange
orange
white blue
blue
white green
green
white brown
brown
This forum says it should be:
white orange
orange
white green
blue
white blue
green
white brown
brown
WOOPS.
Here's my problem, on one end the cable is recessed into the wall and it was hard enough crimping a new end the first time. I don't think there is enough room to cut off the bad crimp job and do a new one (at least not with my tools).
Anyone have any suggestions? Could i throw a crossover cable on the end on one for 4 inches to 'undo my mess'? or would that not help?