How To Make RJ45 Network Patch Cables - Cat 5E and Cat 6 

Network engineer here. Going 8 years now. Never had to create a cable on the job. Came here to run Ethernet to my TV. 😅

I know this is an old video, but I would add one more step to making the cables - test them with a cable tester once they have been made (if possible.) It will keep you from pulling your hair out wondering if you made them correctly!

10 years later and your video still helps people. I keep putting away the idea of terminating cables myself because I'm not really into DIY and I'm scared of fucking up the cables inside my walls but your video helped dissipate a lot of the worries I had. I think I'll get a patch cable to practice it a few times before hitting the wall outlet in a cramped space. Thank you!

my whole class used this as our beginner learning video and everyone understood it. Well done!

I have been a professional trainer for at least 20 years, teaching subjects like software, finance, computer processes, and... you get the picture. Your video is elegant. I wish more instructors would take the time to do what you did in your Cat5e and Cat6 tutorial. Foremost, you used plain, non-technical language and clear, visual, checkpoints a lay person could understand and use to make sure the process works. In addition, you: 1. Introduced the settings where such cables are used, such as network quality, volume, and speed. 2. Described the lack of knowledge surrounding both kinds of cable, such as, "why is my network so slow?" 3. Distinguished the requirements that demand each type of cable, such as normal data rates vs. giga-speed 4. Laid out the components & tools and needed elements so we can find them, such as, ~"get this tool at a hardware store." 5. Pointed out special distinctions so the watcher could recognize what was important, such as wire colors, order, & length. 6. Provided tips from your own experience, such as sheath cutting & double crimping, There were many more elements in your presentation that made it more friendly and clear, which is just who you are. Anyway, thank you for one of the best instructional videos I have seen.

5:40 Thank you for all the close up shots! I was wondering how the cable would connect and I dont have the cables in front of me yet this helped me understand it

i learned how to do this in the marines from my it friends. i was a radioman. i networked my entire house. i love watching these videos.

Pal, I have lost count of the times I've watched this! Thank you! I'm a layman cabling my house with CAT6. I'll wire a few jacks, have a few weeks' break, forget the layout, watch your video again, wire a few jacks . . . ad infinitum. Hugely helpful.

You learnt how to make these at 14, you just taught my 2 boys ages 7 and 9 and they are practising right now. Thank you.

Great video, man. Left me with zero questions at the end. Only took me 3 tries and 5 wasted inches of cable haha. Thanks a million!

7 year old video and STILL of GREAT value. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Quality instruction, not too much filler, clear language and good camera focus considering the size of work!

Beginner CCNA student, working at a place now where I was given a task to make our cables and rewire our MDF, didn't know a thing about making cables but now I can actually do it, keep up the amazing tutorials!

Thanks Kane. You're right, they're not terribly complicated in terms of the order of the pairs. I found when I was a newbie, the biggest challenge was getting those little wires into the right slots in the RJ before you crimp. And, yes, I agree cat5e is totally ample for SOHO environments. :-)

Can’t believe this video is 9 years old! The quality is super great. Thank you so much for making this😁

Thank you for the close up and clear explanation. I just did two connections and talked my son through a third connection. We're both happy men, all thanks to your video! 😁

Excellent video thanks for teaching! I've found that with cat 6, if you make your initial cut at a bit of an angle it's much easier to get the sled on a pair at a time.

5:00 That satisfying feeling when you push the conductors in smoothly

Thats awesome, you're the first one to actually show why you don't need to strip the inner conductors. I was wondering how the pins actually contacted them and now I know that the crimping pierces them from above. Thanks bro.

I'm a tech student currently and planning to do some small networking in my house. we were supposed to do a lab on this then covid hit, so we never learned this stuff. Thank you so much for the video!

this "tripple criple the connector" saved my life. cheers man!!!!!

Thanks! I checked everything multiple times. I did use a magnifying glass to check the wires before I crimped the connector. The second plug went much more quickly than the first. The cable tester confirmed that the cable was good. Success! Let’s see how well I do on the next one!

Dr. Chekov approves your lecture on Cat 6 cable terminations and will immediately notify Scotty on the proper way of wire termination on the Enterprise without using Wifi communication.

I'm a student of life and in the Department of Asking Questions. You've answered my questions about Cat 6 cable. Yowzah. and Many thanks.

If I was to recommend to someone a training video for this topic, it would be this one. It was detailed enough to give me exactly what I need, offered some very helpful technical background on the types of cable and how they differ, and it was entertaining enough to make me want to watch to the end. Excellent job!

Great presentation! Just what I needed to know presented in an enjoyable presentation. Thanks!

Awesome tutorial. I am a former hands on tech that is now an IT Director. I haven't crimped in 12 years and I was never an admin. I just ordered cables because I am lazy and got them really cheap. This is going to help me unretire. Many thanks.

Got to be one of the best how to films out there. Easy to follow and informative, well done sir. Bonus points for the Bester picture.

My first attempt at doing this and it was a huge success thanks to you. Great video really helpful 😀

I just tried this at home. Took me 30 minutes and it totally works!! Thank you!! I'm a newby at this stuff so I am very grateful!

I haven't used the knowledge obtained from watching this video, yet; however, I like the detailed explanation of each step. I teach the same way when explaining anything I'm doing to an apprentice/curious individual that wants/needs to know exactly what I'm doing and why. I appreciate your time and willingness to share your knowledge with folks like myself. Have a blessed one, sir!

Worked for the oldest phone company in the world for many years and wished I would have had this video when I started. I eventually figured it out on my own and also discovered in gigibit ethernet, it doesn't matter what color combo you use as long as it is the same on both ends! The company I work for now uses the B color arrangement that you show in the video supposed to the A color arrangement that we used at AT&T. Good vid!

There are 3 unique types of RG-45 plugs: those for stranded wire; those for solid wire; and those that will work with solid or stranded wire. The bit that pierces the insulation of the cable’s wires is different for each type of plug. Be sure to get the right kind-it makes a difference in the ability of the cable to handle the speed, and give your cables long life.

Many thanks for the outstanding how to video... just made my job super-easy... clear, precise and succinct... you are a talented instructor, Sir!

Wow! And you made this in 2012! Thanks so much! Did you think back then that today, people would still be grateful for your video, you had well over 4 million RU-vid views, and quite a few of us are looking back at a year of covid? I hope you are doing GREAT and again, please accept my gratitude for dropping everything you were doing back in 2012 to help make people a little smarter! Take Care, Tom

@Tek Syndicate, you rock. Just what I wanted to do today. Very easy to follow and like the wire outline and very well kept and the best of the Boss line @10:43-10:48

Thank you for the presentation. With your help I did the cables correctly the first time. Keep it up :)

how many times can i "like" this video..... you made it so simple

This was a great help in understanding how the cable I bought from a small shop wasn't working. Not only did they not put the wires in the proper order, but they also exposed the wires themselves.

This video is awesome and very helpful. I'm a field tech and I needed cat 5e cable for a upcoming project and I've been in my garage struggling making cat5e cable for the first time and every time I tested it never worked I Googled how to make cat5e cables and this video popped up and you explained everything to the T. I didn't know there was a certain wiring scheme to have each individual wire!!! Thanks so much for showing me!! It's like a light at the end of a dark cold tunnel!!! Thanks bro.

Really enjoyed your video, you put it across very well. One minor suggestion it is that you don't stress the cores like that whilst getting the outer jacket off as it may weaken them or cause them to break inside their insulator. You wont know that until you test your cable and it fails :(

A thumbs up! This guy is informative and funny!

Very clear teaching. Great close ups, no gaps in the instruction. This is a model for instructional videos. Thanks!

Excellent video! After 10 years of being "dormant" I made a few cables the other night and surprised myself! Only thing I did wrong was use Cat-5 ends on Cat-6 cable (still worked though).

Just ran Ethernet across my house under the house and this video was a savior after I messed up 3 connectors

This really help me to be confident on my report tommorow. Hahaha

This video helped me go from being terrified of terminating network cables to feeling confident it's not that difficult. Plus you were entertaining along the way, love your humor style. Great video!!

Still works 8 years later! No experience and I did it! Great tutorial.

Thanks a million, very clear video that helped me a lot.

This brings back memories from my high school cisco classes :D

This vid is dope. The quality of the video itself, the pacing, camera work, relavance of the information covered...it's just awesome. Thank you!!

About time someone who showed me the correct colour sequence of the wires. You made my son so happy he now running 950mb on his ps5. Thanks for the help

"& I'm here to help you" ---- I got that joke - thanks

jus watched it and its very helpfull thanks qain for this video

Such a crisp and elegant video... loved it... keep making more... we just moved in to our new home and im doing all these DIY projects for networking, as my wifi router point is at one corner of my home, as this home is 80's built. Will plan for the rewiring pretty soon.

Programmer here. Just started a local hardware webshop and figured this would be a nice addition on services i can provide to customers. Thanks for the great tutorial.

this was so relaxing

Ok I guess this a good video if not better or the best one I will watch. No need to go further and minimal time wasted. Leaving me time to give a thumbs up witch means this video may be latent work of genius. Thanks Ray except white green from the top or bottom?

I've done these in the past, but it was super hard because I always do the pins one at a time. I didn't look up a video until now and I'll start using your technique to get the pins in there.

Would love to see more video's like this!!! :O)

The only thing missing is a simple statement saying "repeat this exact procedure on the opposite end." The procedure for fabricating a cross-over cable is slightly different than a patch cable.

Such an informative video this was!!!I'm not a network admin but a programmer but been learning a bit of networking lately and whats a better way to learn than to see it on a video in practice!Thank you so much and now I am going to check the rest of you channel!

Tek Syndicate being a rank beginner, I was having trouble getting all the wires in the RJ45 pass thru plug at the same time. So with a bit more length in the stripped bundle I did what my wife said(always pay attention to your wife :-)). I put them in one at a time. Checked the order as the came out the other side of the RJ45 pass thru plug. Cut of the excess, put the plug into the crimper and squeezed. I plugged the RJ45 into the router and ran upstairs to see if the new cable worked. Ta Da!!! perfect.First time is a charm. Thank you Tek Syndicate.

Very helpful boss! Thank you. Great work!

Therese actually a lot more to it than that. The method he uses it called T568B most commonly used in the US because it is compatible with older telephone gear. The rest of the world uses T568A which is green stripe,green solid,orange stripe, blue solid, blue stripe, orange solid, brown stripe, brown solid. The advantage of A is the inner two pair map directly to telecom wiring practice. Other that that there isn't much difference. Now the connector there's a lot of confusion between 8P8C connector and RJ45S. while the RJ45S keyed 8P2C modular connector, with Pins 5 and 4 (the middle 2 positions) wired for tip and ring of a single telephone line and Pins 7 and 8 shorting a programming resistor. It was meant to be used with a high speed modem and is obsolete today, but can still be bought it's commonly used to refer the 8P8C connector. The RJ45S in fact features an extra tab that prevents it being used with other types of connector. An actual 8P8C will not work with a RJ45S socket. While Cat5/Cat5e and Cat6/Cat6a cables can be used is the same connector. Cat6 is characterized to 250MHz but has a reduced maximum length when used for 10GBASE-T(10-Gigabit Ethernet), Cat6a is characterized to 500Mhza nd has improved alien crosstalk, allowing 10GBASE-T to be run for the same distance as previous protocols.

I keep coming back to this video because I second guess myself every time I need to make one. Just as helpful today as it was the times I've watched it over the years.

I am faced with having to run cat 6 cables in to several rooms in our new / old house . It was built in the 70's , before anyone ever imagined they might one day have a computer in their home . Fishing the wire through multiple twists and turns with the connecters already installed is out of the question . The connecters will need installing after the cables are in place . This excellent 'howto' video makes the task a whole lot less daunting .

Love your humor about this LOL. And treat yourself to a manicure...

never seen Qain without his sunglasses.

I just made my first cable. and since I knew nothing. I had bought RJ45 plugs and cat6 cable. I had to make it work or else I would be without internet until tomorrow. Your video Helped so much. Thank you

Thank you for such a good instructional video, perfect balance between explaining without over explaining. Very much appreciated.

You have Bester's photo with his autograph? Nice!

This looks like a guy I can trust on this topic.

11 years old... still the best video.

Perfect tutorial. Made two patch cables first time, no problems. Thanks!!

Hahahaha "all admins if you watching this video theres something wrong about you"😂😂😂

Hmmmm Walter Koening as Bester on that picture hmm. RUN HE IS A TELEPATH AND HE'LL READ YOUR MIND.

This just saved my office a ton. I did a complete update and reinstall of all our cables. Two of them got missed by the installers and it was going to be weeks before they could come back.

I saw your video yesterday. I borrowed the tools from someone, and patched it today myself. Honestly, this is so much easier than I thought. Great video ❤️

I just re-networked my entire house with CAT6 cable for $50 CANADIAN (75 ft. of cable total)

first time i saw his eyes!

Put off learning this for about 20 years. Now I'm setting up a network around the whole house, so time to learn to crimp the end bits on

Its been a good 6 or 7 years since i was teached how to crimp cat 5 ... this video refreshed my mind... thank you

They should mention that Kane's colour scheme is for type b. Some people use type a which is gw g ow b bw o brw br

Hey great demo, but when you bend the cable to remove coat, you may also break the conductors.

Just starting out as an IT helper at a school. Thanks! You’re a fun person to learn from.

Thanks. Running cat6 in the morning. My crimp tool has 8 years of dust on it. Big help.

thx bro

Cat 6 is a pain in the arse!

Rj45 pass through are a blessing, running cables and terminating. The cables like to cross. So always check your pairs.

Thanks from the colorblind guy! I didn't know which wire was which by written instructions, but now that I've seen this with my eyes, I can now make the distinction between the wires. Thanks again.

Why didn't you mention A and B standards? Crossover cable? probably in other videos...

Where I can buy this clasp like 9:06? Link please m8

Thats a great refresher! I was a computer science student 5 years ago and because Im poor (I cant buy my own stuffs) I out of practice, mostly Im didnt get to do works regarding computers , thank you for this video

One thing that every single computer course is missing is the instruction about how to actually do the work of running cable, making connections, etc.... The very simple basics don't take a lot of time to teach yet are vitally important to know. Thank you for making this video.

It is good to note that, by standard, you don't actually have a loader for cat 6 (second half of video) but you should always try and get sockets with the loaders otherwise you are just making life hard for yourself for no real reason.

wtf?! my professor in college had us strip all those conductors!

THANK YOU Looked at a lot of "how to crimp Cat5" amd this is by far the BEST

I had to learn this for my class thank you for making configuring and crimping wires as exciting as humanly possible lol!!😆 You're hilarious and adorable!! Live long and prosper!! 🖖🏻 Star Trek rules!! Couldn't help but notice your Walter Koenig photo. 🤗

shud add its T568B standard .. in europe A is the standard ... but almost both work everywhere ..