Converting existing telephone wires to Ethernet cable

[vNa5h]

How easy is crimping for a first tune.. If he has the crimper tool

 

[uberjon]

In the context of telephone cables, Cat 3 can come with 4 cores/conductors. So, don't worry about it.
Crimping - It's a little troublesome, but doable.

 

[Sushubh]

i was able to get it right the first time. had to watch tutorials on youtube and pause them several times to get it right. end result is crude but it works!

 

[amish]

Yes its easy if u watch videos and do as per video.

4-5 years back my friend was setting up new office. And electrician asked him for 50Rs per crimping point! (total 6) (cables were already laid)

I told him forget it we will do it on our own!

We bought new crimping tool for about 150Rs and bought 15 plugs. (all done with just 1 bad crimping)

Overall:

1. He saved about 50-75Rs.
2. Got own crimping tool
3. Learnt to do it well
4. Will save money in future too!
5. Some time lost but worth it

 

[bhojv74]

In the context of telephone cables, Cat 3 can come with 4 cores/conductors. So, don't worry about it.
Crimping - It's a little troublesome, but doable.

Then it's not cat3. Pls show me one cable with 4 cores and cat3 printed on it.

 

[uberjon]

Google it. It's available. We'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Let's see what results the OP gets.

 

[bhojv74]

How easy is crimping for a first tune.. If he has the crimper tool

No matter what ppl tell you about saving money and crimp it yourself, you can always do it, but having spent 20 years with the communications cabling industry, I would suggest you hire a data cabling contractor for your job, not an electrician. Cable termination & crimping is a specialized job, if not performed as per standards, you would not get the speed the cable is rated for.

Another thing, the UTP (cat3 to cat6a) cables available in the market is not supposed to be crimped directly to a RJ45 male jack, it will always give you intermittent connectivity issues. Reason for the same is that the wires have a solid conductor core and the teeth in the RJ45 male plugs are unable to pierce and make proper connection with the core. Which is why if you cut open any factory make patch cord you would find that the core of the conductors are multi strand, which makes a good connection. Thus, if you contact a data communication contractor, he would suggest you terminate the cable with RJ45 female plugs at both ends and use factory make patch cords.

 

[bhojv74]

Google it. It's available. We'll have to agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Let's see what results the OP gets.

I do not have to google this, because I know my work. If the cable is cat3 and below 4 pairs then it is not meeting cat3 standards and is spurious. Cat3 standard cable can be either 4 pairs, or 25pairs, 50 pairs, 100pairs, 800 pairs.

There is a standard called 100BaseT4, which uses all 4 PAIRS of cat3 cable to give you 100mbps, the standard never kicked off because we had cat5 and then cat5e cable at almost no cost difference.

Hope it helps.

 

[vNa5h]

No matter what ppl tell you about saving money and crimp it yourself, you can always do it, but having spent 20 years with the communications cabling industry, I would suggest you hire a data cabling contractor for your job, not an electrician. Cable termination & crimping is a specialized job, if not performed as per standards, you would not get the speed the cable is rated for.

Another thing, the UTP (cat3 to cat6a) cables available in the market is not supposed to be crimped directly to a RJ45 male jack, it will always give you intermittent connectivity issues. Reason for the same is that the wires have a solid conductor core and the teeth in the RJ45 male plugs are unable to pierce and make proper connection with the core. Which is why if you cut open any factory make patch cord you would find that the core of the conductors are multi strand, which makes a good connection. Thus, if you contact a data communication contractor, he would suggest you terminate the cable with RJ45 female plugs at both ends and use factory make patch cords.

Yup I'm gonna end it to female in the wall port and use the standard Ethernet cable that comes with the routers

 

[uberjon]

I do not have to google this, because I know my work. If the cable is cat3 and below 4 pairs then it is not meeting cat3 standards and is spurious. Cat3 standard cable can be either 4 pairs, or 25pairs, 50 pairs, 100pairs, 800 pairs.

There is a standard called 100BaseT4, which uses all 4 PAIRS of cat3 cable to give you 100mbps, the standard never kicked off because we had cat5 and then cat5e cable at almost no cost difference.

Hope it helps.

It does help. Thanks.