How To Punch Down Cat5?

Does anyone of you know a site offering video tutorials or just a tutorial on How To Punch Down Cat5 ?

Thanks...

It's very simple. I can give you specific directions if you need. What exactly are you punching the cat 5 cable down on. Is it cat 5 or cat 5e and what media do you plan to transmit? I am not going into a lengthy post giving you directions on how to do it until i see a reply as there are many people who post a question and never follow up so if you are interested than reply and I'll hook you up as i have been doing telecom for almost 10 years now and have trained many people on this very task.

I am new to networking stuff since at college I studied Software Development...so I am still learning...I have to punch Cat5e to transmit Network and Internet...I have found a quite interesting website to help me :

http://www.teachnet-uk.org.uk/2006%20Projects/ICT-Practical_Networking/Network/Pages/wallsocket.htm

but still I can't figure out how to use the tool called Krone or the tool called 110.

 BTW thanks for your reply...

wow that looks like a really old guide. It still serves it's purpose though I guess. First off what type of terminations are you using. You metioned Krone and 110. you are either using 1 or the other which is dependant on the materials you purchased. You can not use a krone punch tool on a 110 patch panel and vice a versa. The punch tool is very simple to use. you compress the tool in the slot that your wire is seated in and it seat's the wire completely in it's slot cutting off the excess. Make sure your blade or cutting edge is facing the right direction. You may have to punch a couple times if it doesn't cut the wire right away. even then the excess wire does not always just fall off sometime's it requires you topull off with just a slight wiggling motion. not to much or you pull the wires right back out and than your back to square 1 again. here's some simple steps.

First determine which type of termination your will use. 110 is most common.

Than determine the pin configuration. 569A or 568B. I am assuming you are in the states if not than maybe even USOC.Whichever configuration make sure both ends are term the same.

SInce you mention cat 5e I am assuming you will not require anything over 1000base-T or Gigabit LAN.If so you choose the wrong cable. Also Make sure you are using the right cable for the right application. solid conductor or stranded. plenum or nonplenum.

Now for termination I will explain 110 since it is most common. Strip about 3-4 inches of jacketing off your cable. You can use a fancy strip tool,scissors or if there is a yarn insde the jacket use that a a rip cord. Either way after you remove the jacket inspect the wires and make sure you did not nick or cut any of the wires when removing the jacketing. than looking at your jack or patch panel fan out the pairs (Blue, Orange, Green, Brown) depending on where they will need to be placed in the PP or jack. DO not untwist any pairs yet. When you have fan them out start with whichever pair is easiest following the wiring guide that is usually on the PP or jack for your pin configuration. Only untwist just enough to place the wires in their perspective grooves. You want to maintain the natural twist of the cable from the point you striped the jacket off to where they sit in the jack. This does not mean untwisting them all the way and then retwisting after they are terminated. Maintain the natural twist in the cable. AFter you have seated all the wires punch them down with the punch tool so that the blade is cutting away from the cable. That's it. It's very simple.

If you are doing anything else besides just term let me know I will try to help as much as possible.

Hey nelson, thanks a lot for your kind help. This mornng I've done the job and everything is working after testing the network. I am from Malta, a small archipelago in the middle of the Mediterranean sea (Europe). The specification I am using is Krone. For stripping I used a blade and was careful not to damage any of the 8 small coloured wires. The only thing I've done differently is the untwisting thing...I untwisted a lot I think but luckily everything is working fine.

 Once more thanks for your kind help, I really appreciate. If I can be of any help do not hesitate to ask.

 Have a nice day

Good I am glad it worked out. As for the twisting, it's important for networks requiring more bandwidth like say Gigabit LAN. If your only running a 100 meg LAN than you probally wouldn't notice a difference at all unless you really untwisited them a heck of alot. The untwisting causes crosstalk on the pairs in which say the signal may bleed from pair 1 into pair 2. That can corrupt the data packet causeing the data to have to be resent therefor slowing down the network. The more severe the problem is the more serious the effects to the point in which you may have intermitant connection or no connection at all. If your running just 10base-T which is 10megs than you could almost run that on anything. shoot 10meg will work over barb wire.

Just out of curiosity what did you test your network with. Did you just plug it in to see if it worked or did you use ant type of tester.

We will properly test the job later on this week with a real tester. But until now we used the traditional ping method, which in my opinion works just fine.

Do you have MSN?

If yes add me nevilledem@hotmail.com

Have a nice day...