I’m surprised how easy it was once you have all the right tools and a good tutorial to follow.
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It’s satisfying building your own at the length you need.
I learned to do this when I became the defacto IT guy for a small business 20 years ago. I also wired my house. My success rate on cables is 100%. It’s not hard, but it does take extreme care. You just need to triple check the wire order and position before you crimp it.
I’ve always done 568A, and memorized green-stripe-green, orange-stripe-blue, blue-stripe-orange, brown-stripe-brown. I repeat that to myself over and over as I’m making the cable, and checking carefully.
My success rate is 80% so I bought a cable tester. Lol
Mine is 0-20% Each being a different type of mistake.
And now you will not buy a precut cable ever again.
Eh for anything under 5 ft I buy premade. My time is not worth making cables that short.
Any longer runs I crimp myself
The feed-through connectors are a game changer
It feels awesome to make your own custom cables. Especially to get it the exact size you want. What isn’t awesome is trying to debug an intermittent problem due to a faulty cable that sometimes works. My advice if you’re making one or two go for it. If you need 10 just buy them. They are always better cables and so much less time consuming.
This does not include wiring your house with jacks. Those punch downs are pretty full proof and you can’t even honestly buy that premade.
Feels good, man
