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In article <51mruDAKsZE3EwRV@ch-w.demon.co.uk>, John Chapple <jc@ch-
w.demon.co.uk> writes

>I borrowed a crimping tool to make up some network cables. I can just
>about put four of the wires (required for 10baseT) in the correct holes
>if they're solid and I cut off the rest, but how the #*#*# do you do it
>if you use the flexible cable & want to get *all* in? 

Practice.  Lots of it.  I strip the cable jacket about 3 inches, arrange
the cores in the right order, and hold them in place and in line with my
thumbnail.  I then cut the cores straight across with a pair of good
wire cutters to form a straight edge, and then slide the lot into the
RJ45 jack.  Works 90% of the time.

>AFAICT it's actually bad practice? to put RJ45s on the solid cable,
>besides not actually being designed to flex, there's a chance that the
>connector might not actually make a very postive connection with the
>solid core, whereas the the stranded core is properly pierced. 

It's bad practice to use solid cable for drop wires (ie from a wall
socket to a PC).  Stranded should be used here.  There are different
types of RJ45 connector for solid and stranded cable, though I'm not
sure if one could tell the difference from just looking at them.

-- 
Mike Tomlinson
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