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John Chapple wrote:

> 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? There must be a
> trick?. 

You get the hang of it with time. I do it occasionally and am no 
expert; but it can be done.

> 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 worse than bad practice. There are different sorts of IDC 
connectors for solid and for stranded cable. Almost all RJ45 plugs 
are for stranded cable (I think you can get plugs for solid cable if 
you must). In the interests of a good connection the connector sticks 
a spike through the middle of the bundle of strands. And the 
connector for solid cable doesn't connect well with strands.

Having said that, you can mismatch cable and connector and it will 
probably work, and maybe even probably not give trouble later. But 
"probably" is not what you want.

HTH,
-- 
Michael Salem