Cerulean
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My brother has brought to my attention that many YouTube videos and websites he finds on how to crimp for a shielded CAT5e/6 cable, including the shielded cable that was crimped at his house by the ISP, show that the sleeve is not inserted into the RJ-45 plug.
Example:
http://www.lanshack.com/installing_cat6e_plugs.aspx
https://www.dxengineering.com/techarticles/miscinfo/correct-termination-of-shielded-cat5-cables
Platinum Tools does it right!
I have personally seen the work a local music center has done at the church I go to: on every single CAT5e (unshielded) cable used they had 1" of sleeveless naked wiring from the plug on both ends. This caused major problems for the HDMI-to-CAT setup this cabling was intended for; experienced a major improvement after recrimping them properly with EZ-RJ45 plugs (TVs became rock solid stable on signal, no more in-and-out loss). Why does it seem like every audio-related place / store / person crimps it incorrectly? Is this actually for real and I'm not crazy??
Example:
http://www.lanshack.com/installing_cat6e_plugs.aspx
https://www.dxengineering.com/techarticles/miscinfo/correct-termination-of-shielded-cat5-cables
Platinum Tools does it right!
I have personally seen the work a local music center has done at the church I go to: on every single CAT5e (unshielded) cable used they had 1" of sleeveless naked wiring from the plug on both ends. This caused major problems for the HDMI-to-CAT setup this cabling was intended for; experienced a major improvement after recrimping them properly with EZ-RJ45 plugs (TVs became rock solid stable on signal, no more in-and-out loss). Why does it seem like every audio-related place / store / person crimps it incorrectly? Is this actually for real and I'm not crazy??