Chris Davis: Hi, Chris Davis here with PC-Addicts. We're going to show you how to make a patch cable. I don't know what the terminology, it's been a while since I've been in the Cisco class, but -- it's been long while actually, but, basically the way I make them is pretty fairly simple. The patch cable for connecting your computer up to the router, switch, hub, or any kind of network delay. So what we're doing, we're trying to get in the camera view here, sorry. I already have probably about a four feet piece of Cat 5 cable. Then I got a stripper here, so I am going to strip off. I don't know that initially it have 2 inches. I cut off a lot; I like some room when I am working.
So these all take my stripper. Set the wire in there. Just -- it's spring-loaded, so I keep a good amount of pressure on it. I am just going to spin it around a couple of times and with different grade of cable, you might have to adjust the spring tension or you adjust how many times you spin it around.
Basically, there is a little razor blade in there and it's just strip -- it's going to just create a little thing, where you can just strip it right off. So there you go. It exposes the wire, okay. What I am going to do is -- they are in pairs or twisted in pairs, all the different colors. The way -- I guess you can color code them however you want. There is probably a standard that should be used, but I've seen people in company some with all different kinds of colors so -- color combinations. The important thing is, is on each end, they are the same. That will give you a straight-through patch cable. When I am making cross over cable, it's just going to be a straight -through patch cable; they are most common one out there.
First thing I do is, I am twisting the mode, so I can work with them and this one is being a little pain. Once that -- done, this is one of my cable. So, basically the way I do it is I don't have it written down with me, so I am going to try to go after the memory here. I do -- there is two pairs in each twisted pair, I mean just two wires in each twisted pair. There is like the orange ones, there is this orange and white stripe, and then a solid orange. Green one, there is a green and white stripe and a green one, and that's same with the blue and the brown. What I am going to do is kind of straighten them out.
Since they were twisted, they are kind of funky, just makes it easier to work with. I am going to start off with the stripe orange, basically white and orange together. Then I am going to put the solid orange right next to it, kind of -- around, try to straighten them out a little bit.
So I can get these wires and a connector after I cut them. Then I go with, believe I go with the striped green, one off memory. Again, it doesn't really matter as long as you try to keep it uniform with the rest of the business, so the house that you're working with. I think I do a solid blue next. I've already got striped orange, solid orange, then I got striped green, solid blue. Then I am going to do striped blue, solid green, I think this is the combination we do in our networks. I happen to make a cable on a couple of weeks so. Then I am going to do striped brown and solid brown.
Once I get those off, nice and bunch together, and I am holding it tight with these two fingers here. I am going to go ahead and take the crippling tool. It's basically just a tool that has a razor blade on it, and you can cut the ends of the -- not just that, you have -- I'll show you here, let me cut the ends of these off, I have my thumb. As you do this more and more, it gets real easy and you'll get your own way of doing things, but I am going to go ahead and cut the ends of these off, so it's nice and straight and small.
Okay, now we got a nice cut end here. So I am going to take a connector -- and end on it, okay. I am going to put it slightly -- these wires right in there, trying to keep them in that same motor and I am going to push it on real hard here. So all the wires, the tips of the wires get pushed all the way to the end there. I want to make sure I get a good connection, okay. So now I am going to take my crimpling tool again and at the end here is a little open slot; this little open slot where I can plug this in. So I am going to do plug it right in there.
It's plugged in, and then I am going to crimpling, and it's going to -- what it's going to do is it's going to pierce all those wires, it's also going to push down -- this one little plastic piece in here to help hold the wire in there. So there you got one end. Basically, that's the hardest part.
Now what you got to do is take the other end, do the same thing. The trick of it is, the color combination that you use for these, make sure it matches up with the other end and that would be your straight-through cable. The way I do it is I look at the bottom side of it. What's the bottom of the -- but, I look at the side that doesn't have the little clip on it. So I can see the colors easily. Basically you just got to make sure they are mashed up. It should work, you know there are times I made them and I think --
Hopefully, you guys have some tools, little cable tester, most people I think don't -- just regular and uses don't but test it out and see if it works for you. That's making a patch cable. Pc-addicts.com here, talk to you later, bye.
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