Building Your Own LAN Cable/ All Step-by-step Procedure

in #engineering7 years ago (edited)

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Good day Steemians! This is my first time to post a step by step procedure about engineering. I hope you will appreciate it. In this tutorial, I will guide you on how to build a LAN/Ethernet Cable. LAN stands for Local Area Network or it is also known as Ethernet cable. it is used to connect the computers together using HUB/SWITCH/ROUTER. I hope it will be useful to you.

In this tutorial I will give a step by step process but before we start here are the materials that will be needed in this project.

Materials:
• RJ45 Connector
• LAN/Ethernet Cable wire
• Wire Stripper
• Crimper
• LAN Tester
• Cutter

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LAN Cable wire
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Wire Stripper
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Crimper
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LAN Tester
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The Step by step procedure:

  1. Using a wire stripper, cutter or any cutting materials cut a desired length of your LAN cable wire.
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  2. Remove the plastic coat of the cable about 2/3 cm from the cables end which protect the cable wires.

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  1. Arrange the wires of the two ends of the cable according to there color. The two ends will be our Transmitter and our Reciever connector
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Their are two types of connections of the transmitters and the reciever the (1) Straight Thru Connections and the (2)Cross over connections.
Straight Thru Connections
Tx Rx
White Orange - White Orange
Orange - Orange
White Green - White Green
Blue - Blue
White Blue - White Blue
Green - Green
White Brown - White Brown
Brown - Brown

Cross-Over Connections
Tx Rx
White Orange - White Green
Orange - Green
White Green - White Orange
Blue - Blue
White Blue - White Blue
Green - Orange
White Brown - White Brown
Brown - Brown

  1. Cut the wires about 1/2 inch from end of the plastic coat.

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Note: Cut carefully the wires, make sure that the wires are cut with the same length so that it will fit to the connector

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  1. After cutting the wires, insert them into connector...

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..up to pins at the end of the connector and push the girdle firmly...

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..up to metallic pins.

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  1. Plug the connector into the crimper and check that the cable and the girdle are well placed before crimping them.

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  1. To check the LAN Cable if it is properly attached and functionable use a LAN Tester.

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The LED lighs will indicate if it is functionable.

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The LAN Cable is ready to use.

Thank you for reading this tutorial! I hope it helps you, Godbless :)

-@jsoul

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This is very good article. I hope whales will see this article. This is really helpful.

Upvoted.

Thanks! @philiparniebinag. Hoping and praying also :)