I have prewired my previously gutted and remodeled home with CAT6 to most rooms, as well as 4 wireless APs (big house). Currently all the dirty work is done and the walls are closed, and it's time for ...

The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...

Home networking projects can become expensive quickly when you're purchasing ready-made cables. I was staring at a $600+ price for all the cables I needed, so I grabbed an RJ45 crimp tool and a ...

Platinum Tools’s answer: the new patented EXO crimp frame. It’s an RJ45 crimp tool that can terminate multiple sizes of cables and conductors. The crimp frame highlights two interchangeable dies that ...

Anyone have any thoughts on one versus the other? I used to believe Crimp was better, (though harder) because the ends were separate and there wouldn't be any chance of touching or moisture ingress at ...

Although it’s easy to head to the electronics store to buy network cables, making do with cables of predetermined lengths can be a problem. More often than not, premade cables are either too short ...

Audio and Video Cables are not just dependent on the wire or cable used, or the connectors used. The quality of the connection between the wire or cable and connector is just as important, if not more ...

Why assemble your own ethernet cables? Many online stores sell them for only a couple of dollars each. But certain situations call for using your own custom-wired cables. Maybe you need enough of them ...